Granted.
You become the greatest skateboarder to walk the earth so far. You go to competitions, and take home ridiculous looking trophies. You amaze audiences and sunglass-wearing, Big-Gulp-sipping announcers. You also amaze the necktie wearing men behind the curtains, and before you know it, you're rising up the ladder of professional skateboarding faster than your best downhill trial time (which is 1:48, by the way). Suddenly, you have an entire line of skateboards named after you, and soon enough, you branch out to shoes, novelty shirts, and a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor named after you. People praise you as a pioneer in extreme sports. You dominate every X-Games competition you enter, but you don't usually have time to enter because when that time of the year comes around, you're usually in Japan, promoting your next line of this and that. You're a worldwide icon.
Your life is perfect. You've found a beautiful spouse, and have started a family of little skateboarders. You all live in a beautiful house--well, mansion--with a pool and a skate park in your backyard. You're thirty-two, now, and your life is happier than ever before.
But a thought begins to creep up on you. Late at nights, you lie awake in bed, thinking. You know the rules of this thread. There has to be something corrupt about this wish. It's going to be ruined any day now. No, you tell yourself, maybe it already has been ruined. Maybe it's the subtle notion that you've sold your name and your face to the corporate world, but they only want you because you're skilled at skateboarding, a sport that is popular among typically rebellious people who hate the corporate world. No, that isn't it; you may have your own line of clothes, shoes, hats, skateboards, video games, and bobble-heads, but you haven't sold your soul, and you're still pop flyin'. You take this moment to look at your sleeping spouse, and are overcome with love. Your life is pop flyin', you think. So when is the corruption coming? When will it hit? What will it be? Considering how pop flyin' your life is and has been, then the bad thing that's going to happen must be a big thing. You begin to worry about your family. You worry about yourself.
The next day, the feeling won't go away. Weeks go by. You begin looking over your shoulder. Your family is beginning to get concerned about you. Your life is now a constant anxiety of waiting and waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Fin.
I wish that the next poster would finally come out of the closet. C'mon, we all know it's going to happen eventually! Might as well get it over with! We'll still accept and love you!
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