Recently I told my friend: look, my Vans are worn out almost like a real skater’s. And she said: But why are you not a real skater?
And I realized that it’s one of my long-living holding-back patterns: I don’t consider myself as a real someone until I reach some quite high result. But who is a skater? What makes a person a real skater? Winning X Games (I will never do)? But that’s a champion, not just a skater. Doing great ollies (mine are tiny and ugly)? But maybe that would be an “ollier”, not a skater?
So a skater is someone who skates. And I skate quite a lot (for a middle-aged busy person). So maybe I am a real skater?
