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Finding freedom skateboarding in a sari: 'I felt like I was flying' “滑板阿姨” 身穿紗麗自由飛翔
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Finding freedom skateboarding in a sari: 'I felt like I was flying' “滑板阿姨” 身穿紗麗自由飛翔
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My name is Oorbee Roy. I'm also known as Aunty Skates.
我的名字叫奧爾比·羅伊。大家叫我 “滑板阿姨”。
I started skateboarding when I was 43 years old.
我43歲時(shí)開(kāi)始玩滑板。
I thought it's too late for me. I'm going to get hurt. I'm going to fall. People will laugh at me.
我本來(lái)覺(jué)得43歲才開(kāi)始有點(diǎn)太晚了。我可能會(huì)受傷、會(huì)摔倒、會(huì)被人笑。
Once my kids started skateboarding and my husband was skateboarding, I said: "You know what, I don't care about any of that." All I know is I don't want to be standing here all the time.
不過(guò)在我孩子們和丈夫都開(kāi)始玩滑板后，我說(shuō)：“你猜怎么著，我不在乎之前擔(dān)心的那些事情了?！?我就是不想一直站一旁看著他們玩。
I started skateboarding in a sari during Covid. I was also trying to keep the kids entertained. And I said: "Let's go to the skatepark. I'm going to take my sari, and we'll see what happens."
在新冠肺炎疫情期間，我開(kāi)始穿著紗麗玩滑板。我這樣做也是為了讓孩子們高興。我對(duì)他們說(shuō)：“咱們?nèi)セ鍒?chǎng)玩吧。我穿上紗麗去滑滑板，看看行不行。”
My daughter was with me. She got in the [skating] bowl, took some video.
當(dāng)時(shí)我女兒和我在一起。她滑進(jìn)碗池里，拍了一些視頻。
I felt like I was flying. Something got set on fire.
我感覺(jué)自己在飛翔。我感覺(jué)心中有一團(tuán)火被點(diǎn)燃了。
Seeing a 40-something-year-old South Asian mom skateboard in a sari – it is the visual representation of anything is possible.
看到一位40多歲來(lái)自南亞的孩子?jì)寢尨┲嘂愅婊?，這個(gè)畫(huà)面表現(xiàn)了一切皆有可能。
I think it's breaking [a] cultural norm and maybe smashing some stereotypes.
我覺(jué)得我穿紗麗玩滑板打破了習(xí)以為常的文化慣例，可能也打破了一些刻板印象。
And that's what really resonated with people and within four months of being on TikTok, I had over 100,000 followers.
這也是真正引起人們共鳴的東西，我在 TikTok 上分享我玩滑板的視頻四個(gè)月內(nèi)就有了10萬(wàn)多名粉絲。
Skateboarding has taught me so much about how to live my life. When you fall, you get back up. You learn from your fall, and then you go back and you do it again.
玩滑板教會(huì)了我很多關(guān)于如何生活的道理。跌倒了就要爬起來(lái)。你從失敗中吸取教訓(xùn)，然后站起來(lái)重新再來(lái)一次。
I've had women in their twenties come up to me and say: "Hey, thank you so much for showing me that I can, you know, grow up, get married, have children, and still be a skater. I don't have to give up on that."
我遇到過(guò)一些20多歲的女性，她們對(duì)我說(shuō)：“非常感謝你做榜樣，讓我知道我可以長(zhǎng)大、結(jié)婚、生孩子，同時(shí)繼續(xù)玩滑板。我不需要放棄玩滑板。”
