Pickersgill week 9

 It’s funny that when people think of skating, and of a skater’s future, their minds immediately jump to olympics and triple jumps. I see neither of these in my future, and I honestly never wanted to. But skating may be something I don’t let go when I go to college. Maybe I’ll take up dance, or writing, or biology or linguistics. Maybe I let it be something I leave behind when I turn the page to this new chapter. Or maybe I’ll turn it into something I can just do forever. But I don’t want it to be the only thing in my life. It’s not my only passion. There shouldn’t be only room for one passion in someone’s life, should there? It makes me sad when one of someone’s passions forces them to be put in a box, unable to even touch anything else. Or maybe the reality is that more than one is just a lot to do, and trying to do it all would just burn someone out.