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El Campo Santo Cemetery - San Diego, CA

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Skate or Die

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Getting started is always the most difficult part...until it's time to finish. What they don't tell you is that if you wait too long, the momentum dies and so do you a little bit inside every time it crosses your mind. I think a lot about my time these days and how i'm spending it. Attempting things ouwith the intention of being inspired. Not worrying about what i'm missing out. For the first time in 40 years. I feel like i'm doing exactly what I need to be doing. ...and then I think about the people around me, alive or dead, who don't have the agency to live life dynamically. There are choices we make to survive when we are young and many of those choices can indirectly rob us of that agency when we are older. Sometimes though, it's out of our hands altogether. All we can do then is just keep on going. - This is the El Campo Santo Cemetery located in Old Town San Diego. It was built in 1849 and active until around 1880, when it was abandoned along with the rest of Old Town. The main hub of the city moved closer to the waterfront where Downtown San Diego sits today. It would take another century for the area to get its California Historic Landmark designation...bringing a focus to preserving the heritage of San Diego's founding culture. When a cemetery is abandoned, graves become overgrown, bodies get moved to make way for the living, and in some cases such as this one...roads get paved directly over remains. Some say the area is haunted by the spirits of those built upon, known to trigger car alarms or electrical blowouts in the shops nearby. There is also said to be a little girl who laughs and plays in the graveyard at night. If you are still alive and reading this, consider taking back some of your own agency. Don't let the roads of life bury you. Be that little girl who laughs in the face of darkness.

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