A Healthy Hobby: Skateboarding

as I entered the Yellow House. I think they thought I was a recovering alcoholic, until I explained

Without a healthy active mind, a person has trouble deciding and reasoning on his own. Sergio Petraroja explains that, ¡§the powers issuing in the activities that are characteristically human are the powers of reason and free choice¡¨ (Sergio Petraroja, p. 129). Leisure, which is viewed as a state of mind or a way of perceiving experiences, has five major elements that require the aspects of a healthy mind and body. These include: intrinsic motivation, perceived freedom, perceived competence, flow, and playfulness. Intrinsic motivation refers to self-determined behavior that results in the satisfaction of the individual¡¦s internal needs. This point is more focused on maintaining a healthy mind. A person with a healthy mind has the ability to reason, and therefore can determine what it is that intrinsically motivates him. Perceived freedom requires both a healthy mind and body. If one does not maintain a healthy body through recreation, then that person may see himself as having poor health and not possessing certain abilities that allow him the freedom of participating in activities. Perceived competence is an element that also requires a healthy mind and body. This is evident in that, in order for a person to feel they can do something or perform a task, they must possess the appropriate mental competence and physical competence that the act requires of them. Flow is an element that requires a mental capacity. One must cognitively feel

Half my friends laughing, the other half following quickly behind to see what’s going on. In between hanging up the phone with my mom and making it to the bathroom with no one behind me anymore, I realized, wow I’m a spoiled brat who got handed everything and reality came and bit my butt hard. I didn’t really need that sweater. Or the necklace I had bought earlier or even those to die for shoes I was drooling over. With this new sense of maturity, I went and returned all those things I didn’t need. When I got home I walk right into my mom’s room handed her the $250 I had just got back, from all the things I “needed” so badly, and told her,” You know mom, what you said was kind of mean but thanks.” She refused to accept my mom so when she wasn’t looking I put it in her purse later that

A hobby is more than just something that you do in your leisure time. It is something that you make time to do and look forward to doing. Insurmountable pleasure and relaxation can be obtained from doing something that you consider fun to do. It can be described as creative, fascinating, practical, inexpensive, enjoyable, different or unusual.

I was so excited for my new life to begin not realizing the real fight was just about to begin. I used the aid of Methadone to get off the Morphine so that I could still do other things and not have to go away and lose my home. I was living independently and for the

complete life for the better. Because I had bad influences, I didn’t have anyone in my corner

Ina random person's apartment for a few days until he decided that he had it worse here than he

It was a house renting a room for me held together by unanswered suicide letters and two-way mirrors,

So me and my friend arrived at the skate park, we met up with these other kids. Then when I was riding my scooter i thought, “You know what I haven't rode my skateboard yet,

up, and from that moment on, my life was no longer geared toward settling down, but in a

near the outskirts of New Jersey with nothing except a bag with a few pounds, a phone without battery

see me they don't say shit. My only friend is my pipe. I done stole shit from my

I did not want to attend church, I did not want to have family time, and all I wanted to do is be with my friends. It does not seem like a bad thing, but I chose the wrong friends to turn to. They were the friends that made it seem okay to drink, to push your feelings away and to feel absolutely nothing. For a couple of months this is what I thought would help me heal, and I was wrong. I had become a whole new person I became a person my friends seemed to like more than who I had been because I was actually wanting to have fun. It was this way until the end of November. In November I let someone into my life and they became my new best friend. It was so easy to trust them. I opened up and told them about the choices I made and the way I have changed. I despised the person I had become, but my friend helped me out of it.

the wheel of my vehicle. After my sentencing I was escorted to the booking room where

it got tiresome and lonesome. . . . I felt so lonesome I most wished I