As soon as you click into a pair of snowblades you can feel something. It's like electricity is being pumped through your bloodstream; you feel alive. You begin to notice changes in your life. They start out small: your walk gains a little swagger, your hair becomes more lustrous. The more you snowblade the more you feel it, girls start taking an interest in you, kids start looking up to you.
You use them more and more, addicted to the lifestyle they've brought you. Before you know it you're blowing lines off strippers' titties in the VIP room, drinking Don Perrion. High up ski reps are talking to you, telling you why you should ride for their company. You're stomping pillow lines and dub cork 12s with ease.
The success goes to your head, you're never seen without your snowblades. Your eyes look a little sunken and the dark circles grow more prominent. You grow paranoid, every girl who talks to you just wants a piece of your success, all the ski reps are trying to trick you into a bad deal, the feds are after your blades.
You seclude yourself, just you and your blades. They're your only friend, only they understand you, they'll be with you forever. You rent out entire mountains for the day so you can ski blade in peace. Your agents start to get concerned, you're not pleasing the public anymore. they stop helping you so you retreat to the backcountry. Nourishment is secondary, all that matters are your snowblades and shredding the gnar hardcore. Before you know it you're an urban legend. "They say on cloudy days, if you travel too far off the beaten track, you can see him bladin through the trees, shreddin up gnar lines. Sticks and coagulated animal blood in his beard and hair." "I heard, if he catches you he eats your guts and wears your skin to keep warm"
Finally after living in the woods for god-knows-how-long, you venture out into civilization, scaring civilians, but really you're more afraid of them then they are of you. Mothers cover their children's eyes, babies cry. You feel dejected and you look down at your snowblades in your hands. You think about all they've brought you and you start to cry tears of passion and unfathomable pain. A cry that only a wildebeest, orphaned after a pack of lions brutally raped and murdered his family out of cold blood -not for food-, leaving him lying in his parents' bloody carcasses.
You see a trash can and take one last look of longing and hatred at your snowblades before dropping them in and walking away. You walk off into the sunset, thinking about the future to come, a blank slate. You know that the wound left will never fully heal, but you walk away a stronger man, a man who will carry with him forever the joys and burdens of his past.