When it comes to the changes in our life, I always memorize my skating. I1 that no matter how much we enjoy doing something, at some point the one we enjoy comes to a 2 and we move on to our next life phase.
When I was a young boy growing up in New York, I enjoyed3 skating on the local ponds free of charge. Later, I4to enter a roller rink(溜冰场). As my years of roller skating began to5, I discovered that quite often I would be the oldest skater. That, how-ever, never6me because I figured that some-body had to be the youngest and somebody had to be the oldest. I just7to be the oldest.
About a year ago I was skating with a group of middle school students. But this time it was8. For the first time I was having trouble keeping my9and almost fell several times. My years of skating were
10over! I felt as if I had just lost my favourite11. That was when I was aware that there was more to roller skating than just the skating. I12to hand out skates to the students. If they were having a(n)13time trying to skate, I helped them with a smile and words of14. "The next time we come to skate I15that you will do much better because you have already16 the poorly part of skating."
Surprisingly, I don't miss skating. It's time to move on to another phase of it— the17phase. I have18those years on skating for joy. I'm smiling and laughing a lot19now. On the faces of others, I now get to see the20that I once had for roller skating.
