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Personal Narrative-Long-Boarding

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You’re standing with your back against the wall taking in short breathes so you don’t throw your balance off. Your equipment bag is just barely hanging on ten feet away from you, your eyes slowly move down to the dark abyss surrounding the thin gray line you can only assume is the bottom. Toes hanging over the tiny ledge you found and with every step the rock compressing letting you know at any moment you would find the answer to the question “what would hit first?” you or the rock. Would you continue to get your gear, feeling the rush through your veins, the turning of your stomach and the shaking of your body’s natural power coursing through you. If so then you can consider yourself an adrenaline junkie. An adrenaline junkie is someone who …show more content…

My heart beating against my chest defying the dreams of man and truly feeling free from all complications. That’s why I put myself into dangerous situations, so that I can feel the freedom after the fear is gone. “He dances with the devil for the pleasure of saying goodbye.” It means he risks his life for the instances where it could have been taken from him but the light shined through instead. I got the tattoo to remind myself of all the times when it could have been taken from me and to see those memories as the happiest because it is as though I am given the gift of life all over again. Down-hill long-boarding is the sport of a longer skate board that is meant to mimic a surf board. Some would say it is “snowboarding the gravel” or “surfing the earth” , I would call it soaring the sky of the road. I start a hill by first seeing the view it gives me, looking at all the beauty of nature, seeing the surrounding peace shall give me peace within. Down the blazing gravel trail is the incline that slithers like a snake trying to throw you off of its back, though it may feel hot to the touch the road is ice cold on the inside, it wont think twice taking a little bit of you with your falls. So knowing gravity, the road and everything else on this earth is against this

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