The Relationship Snowboard
Did you know that 7.56 million young people snowboard in the US alone? Or that the average high school relationship lasts around 7 months? Generally, when you hear these statistics or think of snowboarding and relationships, they don’t logically seem comparable, but when you dive deeper into the specific aspects of them, you can see how similar they are. Snowboarding and relationships both consist of living and learning in order to be better, getting hurt throughout your journey, and eventually having to reach the end after it all. It’s obvious that snowboarding consists of a lot of learning, after all, it is a sport and you constantly have to learn new things within any sport to improve yourself, but relationships are also centralized around learning new things in order to be the best version of yourself. Whether it is your first relationship or your sixteenth relationship, when you first begin dating someone,
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No matter the circumstances in both a relationship and snowboarding, you eventually will get hurt, whether it is your fault or not. Although generally relationships are viewed as a more positive and perfect thing, they involve pain, just like in snowboarding. Within both snowboarding and relationships, there are many different situations in which you can get hurt. On some occasions, you find yourself starting to get the hang of it and becoming comfortable with what you know. This comfort can lead you to become reckless and get hurt. The environment in both snowboarding and relationships is also constantly changing, resulting in some level of pain. Whether that is in a relationship when you are in a situation surrounded by different people or in snowboarding when you catch an edge because the snow was icier than you organically predicted. Overall getting hurt is unavoidable and even completely healthy, but sometimes it signals that you need to be done