Someone made a comment to me about skateboarding and the so-called
mid life crisis the other day (e.g. the implied that I was having one,
and that’s why I was still skating). Paraphrased, this was my response.
A mid-life crisis is when someone tries to either assert how so-called
young they are, or they decide their life is not going the way they
wanted it to, and suddenly make some rash/bad decisions. I have been
skateboarding for 29 years. There is nothing in life I have loved
more. The reality check is that I am 41-years-old. I do not have many
more summers in me where I will be skateboard, at all, let alone with
what ability I still have. I need make the best use of the time I have
left, before age, and a crippled body, takes it away from me forever. I
am not asserting how young I am. Quite the contrary. I am asserting how
old I am. I have not decided I don’t like where my life is going. I am a
skateboarder, and that is exactly where I want my life to be. It’s not a
mid-crisis. It’s a mid-life awakening. Do what you love, before you
can’t.
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