If you haven't seen it yet, check out the movie We Are Skateboarders.
It's on Youtube here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvQZjrmfb14Basically it's 2 hours of interviews with different pro's from all generations about what they think the soul of skateboarding is, the direction it's gone in and the reasons why some of us are drawn to it.
Very cool to hear the thoughts and ideas of some of skateboardings longest standing and most respected members.
A lot of this rings true for me as I was part of skateboardings counter culture back in the 80's and stayed with it for over 20 years, watching it evolve and change.
I didn't always like what I saw but I always loved the feeling I got from it, that was enough.
I also find that fingerboarding echo's skateboarding so there may be a warning in there for us all to pay attention to