Rollerskating
June 14, 2k14
3:41 PM
Recently all my friends and I have taken an extreme liking to rollerskating, specifically Disco-Skating every Saturday night and so it has become some sort of a ritual for us where we go Disco Skating every Saturday night and skate until our hearts feel skated out! I can't believe how crazy people are not to like rollerskating after taking it up after so many years of its absence! After the first night of rollerskating I wrote (in my handy-dandy-never-let-outta-my-sight-journal)
May 26, 2014: "Rachel, Mikayla, and this really funny kid named Wilson and a few other bunches of kids and I went rollerskating on Saturday night, which by the way is indeed Disco Night and even though I haven't been skating since that tacky "Snowball" in sixth grade and I didn't even get the hang of it until towards the end, I had such a wonderful time! Now I am determined to take up rollerskating!! I'm not even kidding! It was so exhilarating to try something new and immerse myself with eclectic people all enjoying life, dancing like lunatics, and radiating their authentic spirits around the rink! Seriously, people that were really good at rollerskating were so ludicrous and passionate about rollerskating that you couldn't help but laugh and try to skate along with them! I really want to get better, so I am determined to purchase some skates (not blades, that way I can do both) this summer and it will be brilliant! We all skated our little, fleeting hearts out until midnight because it closed, but I am certain if it didn't close we would've been dancing and skating all through the night, that is how fantastic it was! Only, I fell down quite a few times and landed on my left knee every time and now have this HUGE, nasty bruise the size of Jupiter, but I love battle wounds so no complaining there! It's kind of funny how happy I was and it is definitely something I want to do again in the very near future! (like next week!!)"
And then on June 7th at 1:44 AM I wrote: "Tonight was such a liberating night. I'm not sure what exactly it is about Disco Skating, but it makes me feel so free! We all went again tonight and I must say it is beginning to become an extreme fetish of mine! I know I'm nowhere near good, but I don't care! That is the key--I don't care! I fell a few times and bruised my same left knee again--but I don't care! I never feel embarrassed when I fall (even if it's flat on my bottom!) because I am totally and completely free! I'm honestly the happiest version of myself--actually I am myself when I skate or write or talk about Harry Potter because those things make me happy. I loved talking to Caleb (this "ultra-dope" kid from American Fork we recently befriended) on the way home when Rachey fell asleep because he is real. We talked about crying, but I loved it. Tonight was free. It was like a kite without a string... There were no limits to my confidence tonight and that is when I feel myself the best. They even played my all-time favorite 80's song, "Take On Me" by: Aha! and I've never skated so fast and carefree in my entire life! Tonight was simply liberating and I've felt such happiness that not even these peeving hiccups I have now can dampen my stringless spirits! I scrunched my beautiful long hair, swept it up in a side pony with a scrunchie and did my makeup all pretty and actually felt so beautiful (yes, even in a side ponytail) I didn't even think about insecurities or worries I just lived--I lived in that beautiful care-free moment and feel alive. I love this. This is what I live for. This is what makes me--me!" (k.b.)
So as you can tell, I LOVE rollerskating now and I can't help but share my love with everyone! I've been recruiting many to come and I even show off my ultra-crazy battle wounds off just to show how crazy it can get if you really get into it! But all in all, it really makes me feel free and I'm proud to say that every time I go I get better and better and I know it is a different hobby to take up but I don't care! I love it so much! You should definitely try it if you ever feel sad or captured, it is so freeing and I seemed to find a piece of myself somewhere along that rink, but I'm keeping it with me always because I love it. I live for this. This is life and life is meant to be happy and free.
--Real-Slim-Sk8er Member
or just
(k.b.)
