Why Skateboarders are More Loyal Than Writers
Creativity is an art that improves life with practice
Creativity is a gift that becomes more valuable as people start to realize the opportunities and joy that it lends us.
Creative people look and seem different because they are. There’s enough data to say that there is something “special” about a creative person’s brain.
One form of gathering data is testing a person’s ability to “diverge from the common uses of an object”. By testing a person’s ability to picture different uses for common objects, researchers can predict whether the people are more able to think creatively.
By seeing beyond the common and everyday world, creative people are able to do more than just paint or write. Creativity is expressed in business, speech, and inventions.
Skateboarding attracts the creative mind
Skaters don’t like rules. In fact, they love to break rules that keep them skating certain spots or skateparks. They don’t even want standard parks. They want them different and designed creatively as hell.
In other words, skateboarders want nothing to do with the norm.
Writers also want to be creative. They want to do so much and like most skate tricks, they aren’t as easy as they seem. Just because someone else has done it, doesn’t mean it’s feasible.
Where the similarities end
Writers should chase the weird, strange, and original.
It seems like today’s most recent films all fall under: lame, overdone, and political.
Writing is being filtered by corporate boardrooms and outright greed. It is ruining the perspective and mindset of young writers who think writing can only go one way — the way woke culture tells it to.
Skaters don’t take anything from anyone. They especially don’t like sell outs. Could you imagine a writer being hated for having published something and become a millionaire?
Well it’s happened in skating more than once. Chad Muska, Nyjiah Huston, and Bam Margera give a bad taste because skaters think they’re sell outs.
They didn’t do anything but make money from a sport and a career that could literally end with one bad accident.
Skateboarders respect the sport so much that making money is completely an afterthought.
I don’t know many writers who write without thinking about making some sort of money.
Writing would be better if it had more passion
I’m guilty of this too.
I have written without any sense or emotion, and it showed in my writing. I just put pen to paper and expected things to come out.
When have I ever learned a new trick or done anything good by just showing up. I actually have to want and desire something to happen.
Writing is also the same in a way. Writing needs a little spark and that will carry you, but the spark needs to be there.
Why are you writing? Does it bring you pleasure, a sense of fun?
