The sands of time continue to pass through the hour glass unrelenting. As that time passes we grow older and subsequently our lives change. More for some then others. Myself I always seem to travel in some kind of cyclic motion never finding a means to an end. Maybe that is just the existence I have been so accustomed that it is the only reality I know. Many of you might have thought I gave up on SurfingRuinedMyLife.net.
The thought did cross my mind for a host of epithelial reasons. First off there is a personal cost to blogging that in some ways changes the writer’s life. Sometimes in the past I found myself wondering if my life was leading the blog or it was the blog that began to structure the outcome of my life. This idea finally became so ingrained I needed a break to sort it out.
As long as my life goes in this direction maybe I don’t really care what’s leading it. Photo: A Lua
What I found was that after taking nearly a year off from writing, besides the surflog, was that my life still went on in the same status quo it has. I have been publicly writing about myself on the internet since 2005. That is over a decade. I sort of forgot what life was like before documentation. At this point SurfingRuinedMyLife.net has become a part of me making the thought of letting it go seems impossible,
On the topic of costs, there is and has been an emotional cost to blogging. Mainly it is more or less pertaining to the emotions of the important people in the main subject’s life. It is impossible to write a life style blog based on oneself with out including the important people in that life. They are the supporting characters in my life that alter its course and adventures as much as myself. In most cases there has been minimal backlash, yet in few cases, as my long term readers know, there have been some retractions. Truth be told I have lost friends, family, girl friends, connections, jobs, and more likely then not other cool things I will never know about due to my writings. Our actions have consequences and such I too am not impervious of.
Here I am about to learn the consequences of high performance surfing. Photo: A Lua
You know what “FUCK ‘EM”. I didn’t start this blog to make friends (though the unexpected awesome people I have met and befriended because of SurfingRuinedMyLife.net have been amazing, you know who you are) and I never have lived my life in fear of my actions. To be honest I am really tired of making excuses for myself and the path I have chosen to take. Despite the care free fun life that I portray it hasn’t come with out the omittance of other life experiences. In the pursuance of surfing, doing and saying what ever I want it has left me in a sort of box that now as bit more of an adult I have found the world has sort of left me behind. Or let me rephrase that, I have let it leave me behind. The ability and drive to catch up has almost completely alluded me. Thus I am at the moment stuck in this proverbial box.
Life moves fast like the cascading lip. If we don’t keep up then we get left behind. On another note I don’t mind being stuck in this box. Photo: A Lua
I hope this has shed a little bit of light on some of the reservations I have had about moving forward with SurfingRuinedMyLife.net. This is also a declaration of my intent to write again and restore my inner voice. From this point on I am back to writing whatever it is I feel like cause this blog is not sponsored, supported or endorsed by anyone but myself. Therefore I am going to be true to myself, my thoughts and beliefs Take all your death threats, hate mail, bad comments, spitting at me in various surf locales I frequent and shove it up your ass. Last I checked we lived in a country that values free speech. In a world of easily accessible surf cams, information and social media my blog is a minor cog in the machine that is crowding and clogging our line ups.
That being said I do want to take a new direction on this blog because as life changes we change and some topics that I may have thought poignant to go on about in verbatim seem futile now. There are some new thoughts and ideas I have that a few years ago were not even a twinkle in my eye. I just wanted to announce my return to blogging and I once again would like to thank you for reading and supporting me. My greatest hope is that I can write an even better, more entertaining and informative surf blog then I had in the past. If you folks are down to go on this journey with me then please let me know in the comments. I can use all the motivation I can get. Welcome back everyone!!! I am glad to give this another stab.
Here we go again! Photo: A Lua
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