June 21, Go Skateboarding Day: It seems a bit redundant to me. I think dedicating a whole day to skateboarding as an "official" holiday defeats the purpose of riding a skateboard altogether. Now that there's a day to go out and skate, it makes me not want to. Just like Summer, or Saturdays, those are the designated "fun" days and if you don't go out and do it big, you're blowing it. It's like a skatepark appearance is mandatory.
I am probably the minority opinion on this stance, but I imagine there are others out there like me. Maybe I just like to remain low-key. I might skate today, just like I might any day, but I'll live today according to my own rules, not some made up holiday just because other people are.
Maybe my spirit is in the wrong place, but I don't believe it is. What I believe is you should make every day your own by doing something new, something you haven't done before. Get out and skate just because everyone else is? I don't think so, I'll stay in (until I get too antsy and have to go skate).
Like April 20th for pot heads, stoners mark a day to smoke weed all day, I suppose "holidays" such as these are meant for people who don't get to do their chosen activity whenever they please due to work or other obligations.
Go Skateboarding Day is a day for people to skateboard who don't skateboard. It is their time to get in on the fun and enjoy it.
This is obviously a pretty pessimistic approach on my part for thousands of people to get together and organize an event all over the country (and world?) in the name of skateboarding. I applaud the organization and following behind it, yet don't think it is for me.
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