“I’ve been wearing a helmet, every time that I skate, for over a year and a half now. It’s second nature to me at this point. I just put on the lid and go. I wish I would have done this a long time ago, I wanted to, but I actually feared the backlash of my peers, my sponsors, the industry. I was having a hard enough time making ends meet and playing that game, so I thought — Do I really need to add more worries to my troubles? — It was so typical and stupid of me to think this way, to be so caught up in chasing after cool instead of just being cool. I’m really grateful to have gotten distance from that mess and to have been lucky enough to make this decision for myself and not because of some tragic occurrence.



So much of our lives are dictated by exterior influence. How many of us truly let our lives unfold from within? No one wants to be laughed at, be uncool or be a target for ridicule. And so we subscribe to different filters to curate our lives for us. And the people who sit in those offices get to write the rules. And what do they do with that power? They sell us all kinds of worthless crap that we in turn further broadcast and impose upon each other as law. It’s vanity.



To free one’s self from this culture of interpreted experience, to shun the protection of the crowd and instead seek to protect ourselves and our values from the crowd is a much more meaningful road. Will you be laughed at? Ridiculed? Considered uncool? Perhaps. But those people don’t matter. They really don’t. Take the power back. Live YOUR life. It’s the only one you got.”



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