double post on happiness

I posted this on my regular blog, but I liked it so here it is again. It fits better over here.


Happiness. It’s a word that encompasses something different for each person and in varying degrees. I’m not setting out here to discuss deep or profound happiness, but rather something that can give perspective on the things that make us unhappy or something that makes us smile or feel good. Oddly enough I’m not talking about sex here although the last sentence might give that perception.

For me this happiness is skateboarding. I’m on the couch with my boyfriend and we just popped in a skateboard video. And as I was sitting here mesmerized by these pros skating happiness came over me. No, I can’t skate like the pros, but I don’t have to. I see them just doing a push and kick and I know how it feels to be on that board. I know the feel of the board, the way the wheels feel as they roll along the pavement, and the way my feet feel on the board. I know that is what happiness feels like.

When I see guys skateboarding it makes me want to get out to the skate park immediately. I want to try to bump up what I can do and try some new stuff. I’m not that good, but it makes me want to be that good. When, and this is unfortunately very rare, I see women skateboarding it makes me proud and makes me KNOW that I can get better. While I’ll never be a pro that’s hardly the point in me being on a board. Skateboarders get on a board over and over because it’s our happiness. When that stops for me then I’ll know it’s time to quit. Until then this is my happiness.