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It’s funny what we do to skateboard sometimes. From ditching girlfriends to shoveling 5 foot wide patches on the road in the winter time, no condition is too extreme to ditch your board.
As the winter steadily approaches (snowed today, it was wet and miserable), these things keep popping up in my head. I don’t want to accept the fact that I won’t be able to skate for weeks on end or that I’ll be confined inside like a KFC chicken. It’s also weird to think that I won’t see some friends for weeks on end just because of this season. Of course there’ll be the odd day we get to skate together while it’s -10 and we’re just desperate in a parking garage but besides that, nothing. Skateboarding is that factor that brings us all together day in, day out and when that gets taken out of the equation, people go off and do their own thing. When spring hits, it’s reunion time for all of us and everyone is psyched again.
Around this time I get kind of reminiscent on the past few months. Trips, tricks, falls, friends and parties all kind of swirl around in my head and I start to think. Did I take things for granted? Did I blow it and not skate enough? Why didn’t I shoot more? Blah, blah, blah. Fuck it. What happened, happened and whatever I slacked on or didn’t get to do I can always improve on and progress with now and in the future. No worries whatsoever.
So as you watch the snowflakes outside your window gently fall to the ground in that bitter cold air and you die a little inside, just remember that it’s not the end. There will always be relief at points in the winter, just remember to savor them. Shovel the park out on that unusually warm day, throw on your coat and take the bus to the parking garage with some homies, and don’t let the opportunity pass you by. No matter how long or short the break from your board is, you’ll only love it that much more when you get back on it.
