a skateboarder's dream

I have been skating hard over the past weeks with some of the best skaters in the country like Usher, Adam K and Fuad who were training for the Shanghai's X Games Asia qualifying competition. Kinda spend time lepak-ing with them talking about the industry and how hard it is to succeed professionally in the sport, I mean despite the absence of fortune or wealth this sport has to offer. I felt and understood the passion of ambitious skaters.Its like all you ever want to do for the rest of your life is skate and you just couldn't imagine doing anything else besides skating. For many it may sound unrealistic or childish but for us its the simple objective to life and that is to achieve happiness.

Actually, we don't really need a fortune to start living; we love our lifestyle and we're happy with it. The problem is there has to be some basic necessities for survival and unless you're good enough to go pro and make a living there, the rest will have to struggle at some 9-5 retail stores to get by. Now, this is not a question about education, because with a "good education" will come a "good job"; and then how do we go about chasing our dream to go pro when we got to sit back and answer to the Boss who pays us the "monthly salary"??? Can a Professional-something still chase his Dream, his Passion....live his Life???

So what else can we do? Grow old from payday to payday looking good but going nowhere or let go & let LIVE.

The only answer is possibly managing my own business, and that is what I may be studying. I want a future where I will be in charge - time freedom to pursue my Dream and a Lifestyle to call my own
We may or may not succeed in what we do; but it's alright. As skateboarding teaches us that it's not how often we fall but how many times we get up that counts.