How Commited Are You?

Commitment – the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action.

I was about 10 years old, living on the North shore of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands when I got my first surfboard.  Back then I was a little fella with no fear whatsoever.  My surfboard was about 9 feet (a long board) in those days’ standards.

I can remember it like it was yesterday. My friends’ older brother was taking us surfing at the world famous Hookipa State Park, which yields some of the biggest, nastiest winter waves in the world and also a world famous windsurfing and Kite Surfing spot.

Anyways, a storm has recently blown through and the waves were huge that day.  We got to the beach, I waxed up my board and for the first time in my life I paddled out into uncharted waters with waves 4 times my height.

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