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Roller skating and inline skating have been gaining popularity for the last five years or so. I took it up (sort of again) in my late thirties, due to my son b
by BLKNSLVR 5y ago
Roller skating and inline skating have been gaining popularity for the last five years or so. I took it up (sort of again) in my late thirties, due to my son being invited to a roller skating birthday party, and discovered how much I enjoy it as both a challenge and Zen-like experience of focused concentration on both nothing and 'everything going on around me'.
I only do it at a rink and in that context I love it. I look forward to it in a way that makes me feel like a child, so much so that it makes me question my own maturity / adulthood, but nowhere near enough to suppress that enthusiasm.
I'm currently learning to skate backwards, and enjoying the total inability to learn it theoretically, you can only improve by doing, and at my age it has to be done slowly and incrementally because injuries mean you have to wait so long until the next time you can go again - so there's a brake on the speed of improvement.
I really still feel that childish excitement about going skating.
- ehnto 5y ago> so much so that it makes me question my own maturity / adulthood, but nowhere near enough to suppress that enthusiasm Part of maturing is realising that a kindred spirit is something to cherish. Trying to maintain a facade of maturity is what becomes immature.
- quelltext 5y agoFYI, that's not what "kindred spirit" means.
- ehnto 5y agoSo it isn't! I had assumed it was evolved from the the germanic word for children, kinder, but it looks like it evolved from the Old English word kinraden, which meant related in lineage more or less.
- chana_masala 5y agoWe still have kin in English
- BLKNSLVR 5y agoI know what you meant, cheers :)
- scrollaway 5y agoOh, come to an ice skating rink some time :) And please hit me up if you do so in Belgium. I wrote a bit about ice skating / figure skating here. You might find some inspiration there: https://tildes.net/~talk/xoh/the_one_thing_i_wish_someone_had_told_me_about_physical_activity https://tildes.net/~talk/xoh/the_one_thing_i_wish_someone_ha...