i met my current room mate through skating and we moved in together two years later in 2010. for the last two years he has been heavily involved in a gnarly relationship with alot of problems and they recently separated so he's been very low for a while, and i mean low, down and out. he hasn't skated for a year and i ask him regularly to go skate and he isn't interested. he explained to me that this relationship has been bringing him down for about a year and he "wants to want to go skate" but he just can't do it. last night we went to the bar, and his girl was there with some dude she's been hanging with for about a month. obviously he got bummed right away, she came to talk to us and they ended up getting into some emotional stuff about where eachother are. when the bar closed he and i left and i told him i want him to talk to me about that stuff cuz its obvious that it's bringing him down and as one of his best friends i want to know about that part of his life and help him. we had good talk in the car and at home and i keep telling him he needs to go out and skate and have some time to do something that allows him to not think about anything. I said we should go skate around the neighborhood right now, 3:30 am, and he just said "let's go". we skated down the street, he was pushing super fast, powersliding, ollieing up curbs and then we rolled up to the local gas station and sessioned the parking lot for a while. he was doing slappies and manuals, then we did back to back boardslides on the metal rails at the gas pumps. He had a smile back on his face that he hasn't had in a long time and i could tell that spark came right back and i got to skate with my best friend again. It was easily one of the best, and most rewarding sessions i've ever had. when we got home he smacked his nose on the curb and gave me the gnarliest high five, he was so purely psyched on skating and it made me so happy to see it. that is what skating is about, i got really hyped just being out with my friend again. i watched him push down the street with a huge smile on his face and though to myself, there is nothing like skateboarding. i love this shit