I learned snowboarding many years ago.
Because my family was humble and holidays were a luxury, growing up it never crossed my mind that I could have a sky trip. I assumed it was something totally out of my league. Until I met a boy to whom everything was possible if you had the will to do it. So, he took me to a sky trip and thought me not how to surf on a snowboard, but how not to surrender.
But, as big as that sounds, there is something else—more important—that I learned from snowboarding and that I found essential for my everyday life.
Before we went on the trip, this friend gave me a book of “essentials” of snowboarding. It was a fun book, easy to understand, well illustrated. And what I will never forget is the rule that says “always look forward”: if there is a tree and you look at it, big chances are that you are going to hit it; if you want to go left, look left and your body will follow.
That rule—for me (please remember that this is all about subjectivity)—applies for life. If you have an objective—a dream, a wish—look forward to it, not only on an abstract way of “willing this to happen”, but on a more practical way: making the moves, taking decisions, being honest to yourself. Our actions “looking forward” takes us to what we want, or dreamed, or else. And of course, if we look to the tree, we’ll hit it.
Hopefully, we might be conscious of what are we looking for ;)
