VIC
1572 posts
If you are referring to Golito then yes, he had to overcome a lot to get where he is, but whats even more moving are the comments about life and Andre's battle with cancer that got me drawn in. I would love to see a story about him, just hoping it all ends well for him. From the look of him, he looks tired, and the comments are almost like he feels the battle is not in his favour.
NSW
9207 posts
Andre understands these 'Magic Moments', and it's obvious when you watch his videos. He appreciates everything that is associated with the sport be it a killer (and frankly often impossible to follow) move in slow motion which rolls to a matrix style bullet-time shot so we can appreciate it even more, or the way the light is caught by the surface of the water when under it, or just the way the wind blows grass on some remote sand dunes.
There are so many people that spend their lives doing nothing but achieving a career, or even nothing at all, wasting it by consuming fleeting fashions in music and television. None of this is actually real, in the physical sense. It's all in their heads.
What Andre and probably all that are reading this have experienced, because it's kinda what keeps us doing this and similar sports, is an appreciation for the eternal present. Magic moments so to speak. It's appreciating nature and riding along with it. It's beautiful.
...now back to my fluro cubicle.
1421 posts
Cancer used to be an illness where it was normal when you got the news to also get a projected time that you couldn't do anything about.
Now its a whole variation of cancers where progress is being made to find out how to slow them or stop them. In years to come, it is now looking like it will be stoppable.
There are people whose life kindof stops when they get the news. Andre is making the point that you can still seek out those magical moments and focus on living.
I hope he has many more magical moments and whichever way things go, he is reminding us all that we have to work for them.
