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Living the Life Revisited In the sun blazed heat lays the familiar skate park that I spent so many hours at in my younger years. Today it still looks exciting, just as it did when I was eleven. I catch up with the “locals”; it has been months since I’ve talked to the friends that I use to know so well, each one of my old shag haired friends still “living the life”. “Living the life,” refers to a care free life-style of sleep, school, and skateboarding. After catching up on old times I sit on a bench by myself and render in the views that bring back such amazing memories. The park is large, one of the largest in Oregon. My eyes follow each and every obstacle in the park as if they were a hand tracing a picture of perfection. Every bump and shift of terrain in that park brings some kind of memory, be it painful, fun, or exciting. I remember my first time at the skate park; it was like the first day of school. I knew absolutely no one, but we were all there for the same reason, that was our passion for skateboarding. From my first day there, I knew it would not be my last. Since age eleven I went there at least 3-4 times a week up until a year ago. Now being 17, growing up prohibits my care free days of “living the life”. Memories of 100 degree long summer days at the park fill my head. Those were the days I thought to myself. There was more than one time where my sweat and blood had left its trace on that park after falling from trying the same trick every day. When I landed it though, it all became worth it. Times when I was sitting down nervously waiting for the announcer to call my name so I could do my run for the competition and my heart beating deathly fast, play throughout my mind. Just to hear my name called out in the end for placing in the top 3 made it all worth it every time. To some, the skate park in Medford may be just a hangout spot for teens with nothing to do, but to me it is where I spent 6 years enduring pain, meeting new people, winning competitions, volunteering to clean up the acts of vandalism, and simply “living the life”.
