In 1977, a movie came out starring Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft called “The Turning Point.” In the movie, Deedee, a former ballerina, decides to leave the ballet to get married and raise children. Now fast forward –her best friend Emma, who stayed in her ballet career, invites Deedee’s daughter Emilia to join her ballet company. This sparks both pride for her daughter but envy, regret, jealousy, and nostalgia for Deedee. The movie follows Deedee’s painful coming to terms with her past decisions and her final peacemaking with her life’s choices. Sometimes, in looking at our past, we can feel we have lost something only to acknowledge in the present that we have gained so much more. Value for us lies not in the mistakes we have made or in the losses we have endured but in what we learn…