Skateboarding cannot be your life.

skateboarding isn't life.
It's not an identity.
It's not your parents.
It's not your god. Though some make it one...

People aren't skateboarders, any more than the potbellied forty-something drooped over his glory days was never actually a football player. He was just a person who got tricked into thinking that he was a football player. When life, and the truth that things down here don't last forever, caught up with him, he wasn't ready and despair set in.

"That'll never happen to me." you may say.
but it will if you're not ready.

You're not a skateboarder. You are a person.
you need to grow as a person, and consider the kind of character you're developing. Are you going to be okay with all this when you're 60? 45?

What? you don't want to live that long?
Well, then, glad you brought that up.
are you going to be okay with the choice to identify yourself with what you did, when your're dead, and there's no doing anything, only living in the who you are of what you've done?

Are you digging your grave with overfocus on learning tricks, fitting in, and being praised by people? Aren't you becoming an whore to people's approval, justlike the person you swore you'd never become?

Are you going to be okay with that after you die?

We are people.
People are people.

Skateboarding is just a game.
it's a game of skill and chance
a gamble.
Our games don't define us.
...cannot fulfill us.

are you addicted to gambling?
gambling your ankles for glory?

Skateboarding isn't a full enough expression of the human spirit
to be the life that it's retailers are selling us.
"Core" guys, you're just pushing a retail lie.
Wake up.
you're a human being.
That's way more than being a "skateboarder".

you are human.
you have soul.
human souls need to grow
stretch out in choices
and thinking about life beyond
the boundaries
of a retail segment.
or gambles on tricks they do...

the gamble on ankles and glory.