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Skateboarding Saved Me From Becoming a Boring Adult
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Posted by Dez Fontaine Filed in Personal #personal growth #Authenticity #skateboarding culture #street life #adulthood 45 views
I'm not gonna pretend I discovered some deep spiritual truth while ollying down a hill. That's cap. But I did realize something real sitting on my board at like 6 AM before the world got loud, watching the sun hit the pavement just right, and I was thinking man, this is the last place where I'm still allowed to be myself without a permission slip.
See, adulthood comes with this invisible contract where you gotta sand down all your weird edges. You get a job, you get responsibilities, suddenly you're supposed to care about things like quarterly earnings or what the neighbors think. And skateboarding is literally the only space I know where being weird is the whole point. Where messing up is data. Where you can just exist on four wheels and nobody's asking you to monetize it or make it productive.
I watch kids now learning tricks and they got this thing, this raw determination that ain't about Instagram or proving nothing. They're chasing the pure feeling of landing something they been trying for months. And that's it. That's the whole transaction. No audience necessary. Just you versus gravity and the board beneath your feet telling you exactly where you stand.
What gets me is how skateboarding never asks you to grow up. It asks you to grow down in the best way, back to that place where play was the entire job description. Where a spot is just a spot, a line is just a line, and the only thing that matters is whether you sent it or you didn't. That's honest work.
I think that's why I come back to it even when my knees hurt and my reflexes ain't what they used to be. Because in a world that's constantly trying to make you respectable and appropriate and fit inside the margins, skateboarding is still out here saying nah, stay weird, stay curious, keep breaking yourself down and building back up.
What's your thing that keeps you from becoming too predictable?