Okay Sports Fans....
Marriage has been good to me. Like a true Taurus I find my feet planted and I am happy. Too happy maybe. Happiness is a close relative of lazy. So the satiated soul has enjoyed it's carb loaded coma, and in all honesty, it all could have slipped away from me forever.
All of it.
The anguish.
The stoke.
The hoping.
The crushing reality.
And those nuggets of true understanding of which we cannot describe, or quite tangibly remember to a point of understanding any more than that we simply must taste it again.
Easily. I could have let it all slide. I mean really, what did I have to prove anymore anyway? Solid friends, great adventures, a woman who keeps me honest and loves me like no other. A warm house. A grown daughter. A solid job. Fishing, hunting, motorcycling. What did I have left to reach for? What could ever strike a hunger for anything more than I have now, or have known?
It was so close to dude. I mean really close. Hell, the path of least resistance was so close I could taste it, and it had sprinkles on it too.
Then it happened.
The Question was levered to me so comfortably, like two guys chatting at the pisser. Matter of fact, that is exactly what it was like. I am standing there draining the main vein and looking forward to the extra shake when he walks up to the urnial, and so casually questions over the partition.... "So you still surfing dude, or are you done with that now?"
Good God.
What a question.
It set me into a spin that rivals that effect you see in movies where the camera focuses in and the hallway drops away. Disorienting. Confusing. My hoofs, er...feet were no longer planted so firmly as they had been.
I mean f@#K me. This was no idle bathroom chat. This was THE question of all questions.
Later I stood in my garage and stared at my Con in the rafters. Having sold off the butter stick a few years ago, the Con patiently waited for me to find it again. Adn there it was. In the corner a brand new wetsuit hung unused. On the shelf was my Dakine sack.
I wrestled with it all for a long time. And some time later I found myself looking at these lonely symbols once again. I decided my Dakine sack has sat on the shelf too long.
I took my sack back and knocked the dust off of it. I layed it out for all to see, and aired it out. I took inventory of my gear and found that it was all in great shape. Problem was/is....I no longer was. I knew it was time to get things back in order.
So that is where I am now.
Six pounds down from my heaviest weight I have ever known. And headed in the right direction.
Luckily for me, the only thing crappier than summer surf in Oregon is winter surf in Oregon, so time is on my side.
I will return soon enough, and I can't hardly wait.
I can't say that I will be able to breathe any life into the corpse of a forum, however I will contribute where I can.
And by the way, f@#K you if you think you are going to trample on my 2nd amendment rights....
Just sayin...