Just Out For A Rip Are Yea Bud
December 13, 2018 Uncategorized 2 comments alapointe19
Maine is an awesome all around state with a great variety of weather for our enjoyment. Come winter time everybody brings their sleds out and gets to ripping. Every year someone crashes and breaks a little something on their snowmobile. No matter how bad the wreck is we all just laugh it off and put it in the back of our head as a memory to tell our kids sometime. In the moment the crash may hurt, it may cost a lot, and it may look bad, but my group and I always try and take the best out of the situation and in this case just laugh it off.
When someone else crashes it is entertaining most of the time so we all just laugh about it. To the person involved in the crash it isn’t always immediately funny, but its something they usually look back at and have a good laugh about. I try my best to just laugh situations off as I know rarely they will truly affect my success and life in the future. There are some things in life that may actually matter, but most of the time, life is full of meaningless distractions.
A moment I once laughed off a tough scenario was last winter. We had a large group of friends riding our sleds in the local pit. I attempted to climb this pit wall with my snowmobile and ended up breaking my sled to a point where it just revved up and didn’t move. Originally we were thinking it was just the belt or something simple, but after multiple attempts at basic fixes we figured it was the chain case which would mean an expensive bill. I was standing there hoping I could somehow get his sled from here in the middle of nowhere to my house. I stood there hoping that I wouldn’t be out of commission for the rest of the winter. I stood there hoping I wouldn’t be broke from this mishap. But as I stood there I was joking about it, I had a smile on my face and I handled the worry and stress with a laugh. By laughing about something it takes away the seriousness of the situation and turns it into a memory to laugh at while looking back.
Laughing off the set back changed my attitude allowing me to think about the worst case scenarios and how lucky I truly am. My snowmobile is broken, darn, but at least I have a snowmobile, heck at least I have food on the table at home. Some people struggle on a day to day basis to have a roof over their head, and I am over here bumming because of a snowmobile being a little broken. I realized that my snowmobile breaking should be the least of my worries and in all reality it doesn’t matter too much and in five years from that moment I knew it really wouldn’t have affected me.
Laughing through the short term struggle was my best option. It made me appear comfortable with what was going on. The appearance turned real and dealing with the circumstance became easy.
People don’t just laugh when something’s funny. Half the time they laugh to cover up a possible awkwardness or an insecure of some sort. Discomfort can comfortably be covered up by the laughter, but some see right through it. In this case I was in an awkward case and felt the need to just laugh it out and hope for the best in the future. Nobody likes breaking their sled, but we all have to act like we are fine with it at the moment knowing in the future it will all be okay and barely matter.
Miserable moments make for the best memories. Ten years from now I don’t think I’m going to be the person to remember that one amusement park ride I went on, I’m going to remember the moments like this one where it creates a story. A time where at the moment it seemed terrible, but now we are past it and by it being terrible it is simply more memorable.
2 Comments
I really like this post it really makes you think about how lucky some of us actually are. Not everyone has a meal for dinner each night. This post got me thankful for the little things in life. Our problems that we have in reality are no big deal. There are a lot of people who are suffering and we are stressed out over a broken piece of machinery. I really enjoyed reading this post, it was well written and it gave me a lot to think about. This post is completely right, we remember the worst moments and look back on them and just laugh. nice work!
I love how you mention everything that happen, very easy to picture in my head, I can almost see it as you getting right to the top and this happening then you plummeting down the wall backwards absolutely panicking hahaha. Love how you mention it can be angry for couple minutes or pain full but its not going to effect our future usually and at the end of the day its great stroys to tell our kids, I love it great job!!!