Skating my way through life

It's about 10am and my phone rings. I pick it up and my buddy is on the other end. "Dude, we are going to drop LSD and go longboarding. Come over." "For real?", I ask. "Alright, let me grab some breakfast and I'll be right over." I throw some bacon on the stove and eat a banana while I'm waiting because it's all I have to eat. Then I grab my skateboard and head out the door.

This is how I live my life. Always living in the present moment and taking things as they come. I always feel like I am sort of stumbling through life, but it has worked out for me thus far.

Little did we know, that day was to be one of the hottest days of the year so far. But let me tell you, there are few things more liberating than flying down a hill at 30MPH with nothing but a plank of wood under your feet and the hot asphalt rushing by, and experiencing a feeling of oneness with the world around you. It has been about a year since I last did acid, or any other psychedelic drug for that matter. And it was exactly what I needed. During that hot, sun and acid-drenched day, I once again was able to get in touch with my true nature. There is something about psychedelics and adrenaline that mix very well.

Now it is often very difficult to convey ideas that emerge during a trip to other people. Sometimes those ideas or realizations will stay with you after the trip, and sometimes they fade away along with the dose. I had a couple self-realizations that stuck with me after this trip. I realized that my dreadlocks are not just hair, but a symbol of my resistance towards society, or Babylon. And likewise, a symbol signifying the acceptance of my alternative lifestyle.

During my trip, I was also able to sort of step back and look at my life as if viewed from a different perspective. It was almost as if I was seeing my life as a story. I was the main character and this was yet another chapter in the book. Because that's all that life really is, right? It's one big story, and it's up to you to write the story. I ask you this....when the story is over, is it a story that you or other people would be interested in reading?