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iceskating; from dream, to reality: a thread (hopefully)
1 year ago I was really struggling. I found comfort in a song “slow dancing in the dark” by joji. That song means more than i could’ve ever imagined. Then i got an ice skating video recommended of a man skating to the song, and I was hypnotized. That’s where it all started.
i found a rink really far away around the capital and desperately tried to convince my mom. Eventually it worked! but.. i was still in a really bad headspace so when i realized i actually have to put in effort to do what i wanted i shut down and never thought of it again. UNTIL
around a year later (now), i got the same video recommend again but this time looking through a completely different lens. Whatever i was going through at the time, stopped me from feeling inspired and motivated like i do now, but instead left me jealous and stubborn.
but this time it’s different. I’ve never strived this much to actually do something, work for what i want and make effort. And most importantly LEARN from my mistakes instead of taking them as defeat.
I scavenged the internet for just the smallest evidence that someone had the thought before me or there was some secret old abandoned rink that google wasn’t showing me, but there wasn’t. and my parents aren’t gonna use 5+ hours transport.
if i can’t go to the rink, the rink must come to me. So i started. i made a proposal on my governments website and got to work. it took almost a week to just decide on the final text to use analysing everything ending up with 10+ different ones.
i visited my grandparents asking for advice and they told me to ask the politicians and get in the newspaper but that seemed ridiculous to me, feeling so small in comparison. I finally posted the final text with the link on my city’s facebook group with 25.000+ members,
and then the votes came. it was surrealistic that people actually supported my idea when i felt so alone in it. but 1500 is a lot and my brother kept reminding me :( but then i found an update on their website saying just now that u only need 500 so i was livid
as the proposal kept gaining more and more votes, a journalist contacted me asking for an interview and photo shoot. i couldn’t believe it. my proposal went from a whiny complaint to my parents, into a mainstream youth-movement that politicians were actually discussing.
OKAY A MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL CONTACTED ME INVITUBG ME TO THE TOWN HALL WHAT THE F
