Remember when I was complaining about not knowing what favorite word to photograph? Well, I figured out what one of my favorite words is, and it is in another language: German. Even better.

The process of arriving at the realization that fleißig is one of my favorite words:

I thought it would be a good idea to pick some adjectives that either I feel apply to me, or that I value in other people and go from there. Even though I haven't ever always been the smartest person in school, I have always been hard-working and that is a very important difference. Being hard working goes a lot further than brains in my opinion.
But hard working is two words, or one hyphenated word, which doesn't count... and diligent didn't exactly fit either. So then I thought of the time when I was sitting in church in Vienna knitting, of course, when an older woman came up to me and said "Es ist so fleißig, dass du hier strickst." That is so hard working of you to knit here. She then taught me some different ways to do some stitches, which was awesome.

One of my favorite memories, by the way. :)

So there you have it, a one-worded version of hard working that is in a different language!

Now you're probably asking "what the heck do pointe shoes have to do with fleißig?"

My answer: What about pointe shoes doesn't have to do with that beautiful word? Every aspect of toe work is the definition of fleißig itself.