MY SKATEBOARD
My skateboard is my best friend. Better than that my skateboard is like my girlfriend. No, my skateboard is my companion. There it is. There is the right word, for it is always there to keep me company. When I am feeling lonely, it is my skateboard that I call upon to spend the day with. When it is a nice day out, we go down to the park and pass the time together. I always have fun with my skateboard. When I am on it I forget about everything. It helps me get away. My mind just goes blank for a couple of hours and the weight of the world is lifted off my shoulders as I rest my weight on it.
My skateboard is always with me. It has been ever since I was 5 years old and was first introduced to it. Though others may come and go, my skateboard is my life partner. It has always been there for me and I know it always will be. My skateboard will never leave me for another guy, or start doing drugs and going to parties with pretentious hipsters in New Brunswick and stop calling me because it thinks it is too cool for me now. A skateboard never has plans. He is always down to do whatever I'm doing and go wherever I'm going.
In fact my skateboard doesnt have to call. Its cool, we just have that sort of relationship where I know its always there. Its at the foot of my bed as I sleep at night, and in the passenger seat of my car when I am driving. It gives me a ride to class, so I never have to walk on my bad ankle when I am on campus. On a rainy day, if a professor sees me around without my skateboard they always make an inquiry as to where it is because I am seldom seen without it.
It has become a part of me, a part of my identity. I'm that kid in class with the skateboard. In fact I'm sure those of you in class who may read this may not even recognize my face or my name but could tell who wrote this as soon as you saw the title because I always have my skateboard with me.
My skateboard has never done anything bad to me. It has never lied to me or hurt me. Sure some say things like, when you fall doesn't it hurt? Indeed it does, but that is not the skateboards fault. It is my own. Most of the time because I am trying to go beyond my or the skateboards limits.
Sometimes I may even break my skateboard, but it forgives me. I get a new one and get used to it and we are happy together once again.
I know you may think that this is silly and some may not be able to understand how I could have such a strong bond with an inanimate object but most of you have probably never skateboarded. Who needs friends, as long as I have my skateboard I shall never have to go through this life alone and I know it will always be there by my side, which is more than I can say for any human being I have ever met.
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