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There I sat, atop a mountain of a slide inside a roller-skating rink in Germany. You would think that I was competing in the winter Olympics given the height of the ramp. I have never had a desire to be the world’s best roller-skater. I have always had curiosity. While others may have been intimated by the mountain of doom, I just thought, “How bad can it be?”

 

Once on top, I realized how bad it could be. And since now I am at the top without a way to go back, I am rethinking my most current life choice. Since I could not find my courage, I instead used my youthful life inexperience to serve as the initial push. I didn’t realize one could do sub-sonic speeds on roller-skates. Luckily, social media was not yet in existence during this event in my life. Crash and burn is no exaggeration to how I landed.

 

Miraculously, no one saw the whole event. And since I was able to walk away (well, limp away), I figured that made it a good landing and a good lesson. The lesson? Taking a big risk may not get you a gold medal in roller stating, but it may not be the end of you either. With that, I start my journey for the blog Story Telling On Purpose. My hope is that as I experience life one story at a time, you will too.

Published by nbaskerville

After years of being an instructor in the military and the and the fire service, I realized I needed to improve my delivery. My students needed me to improve delivery. But how do I improve my delivery? Simple. I finally took a member of Toastmasters up on the invitation to come to a meeting. It wasn't long until I joined. Along the way of improving my skills at delivering a message, I came to understand that of all the ways to get a point across, telling stories is the best way to get it done. Around this time, another friend from Toastmasters told me about The Moth monthly story telling shows. What better way to test out my theories on storytelling. It's in my travels there to the shows that I found more and more shows, and classes, and events centered around storytelling. Despite how many people know about the storytelling world, not many people know about the storytelling world. So now, I'm out to tell the world about storytelling.

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