I desperately wanted a skateboard when I was a kid, but my parents never let me have one. After a while, I just let that feeling slip in the background and I never learned to use one.

Now I find myself a man in his 40s still desperately wanting one but afraid I’ll actually hurt myself in a way that I could’ve easily bounced back from as a kid. Would it be too much of a mid-life crisis behavior to figure it out now? Where would I even begin?