Who cares what board so-n-so is riding or what kinda of shoes/style/tricks so-n-so wears/has/does?! They skate. That's all that should matter. They are having some innocent fun.
If we don't get along with someone for personality reasons we should just avoid them and be cordial when we have to be around them. It's simple really. We just tend to complicate things in life in order to "fill" our time (Note the quotations around fill). Complications just become a distraction for what is greater and far better for us, namely love. If we loved people more and thought about ourselves less I think life would be much easier for all of us. The problem is no one can truly love someone else unless they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are loved immensely by something greater than themselves. Of course I'm talking about the love of God. His love truly changes us because he looks at us and sees all the good things we are but he also sees how crappy we are to others and ourselves and he chooses to love us anyway. This is life-changing type of love. This is why I have friends who ride bikes and friends who roller-blade and friends who have never even stepped foot on a skateboard because ultimately in life skateboarding, bikes, roller-blades or anything else like that really doesn't matter. The only true thing that matters is getting to know God and loving those around us.
Sorry for the rant. It just bugs me that people get so focused on themselves and their own agenda that they lose focus on what matters. I'm guilty of this myself. Skateboarding is so much fun, but because of that there is a danger of being distracted by it and putting our agenda ahead of Truth (capital t is intentional there). This is why I'm so laidback when it comes to skateboarding. I don't compete because it's not why I skate. If I do happen to enter a contest I try to best myself to see if I can pull the tricks I think I can do just as if I was casually skating with my friends in a heated ramp session or whatever. It stays fun that way. Trying to outdo the other guy to make myself look better takes the fun out of it for me. When I go to the park I don't try to one-up anyone there. I just ride my skateboard. I like to talk trash because I'm skating with my friends and it's fun to talk trash in a joking way, but I do it because the tricks I can or can't do don't really matter to me because I know there's more to life than skateboarding. I even get stoked if someone is there ripping harder than me. I can just sit and watch and be stoked for them even if we're not really friends or they ride for another shop. I can get stoked for them because I know God loves me regardless if I rip or suck.
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love dude. it's what it's all about.
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