The Berricsのインスタグラム(berrics) - 4月3日 11時30分

Many of you may not immediately know this man, but his influence has been felt by anyone who has liked anything we have ever made at the Berrics or anything good I’ve ever done personally as a skateboarder and as a human being. This is Steven Bochco, prolific creator of some of the most genius and groundbreaking television shows to have ever existed. When I was new to Los Angeles, a poor kid who came to California with $40 in his pocket, a skateboard, and a singular dream of making something my family could be proud of, I somehow found luck in the form of Steven’s daughter, Melissa. She was the first person I ever really met that lived in a neighborhood that the type of people in my neighborhood didn’t know. When I first met Steven, it was for dinner, just Melissa and I, and instead of being the asshole dad to this dirty skateboarder dating his daughter, he was interested in what I did and who I was. And he liked me. He didn’t care that I was poor. He wasn’t self-absorbed. He wasn’t too important despite being one of the most important people in a city of important people. He wasn’t anything like what a poor white trash kid who grew up learning that wealthy and successful people were the enemy thought he would be. Last week I had dinner with Melissa (still my best friend) and her son, Wes, and I knew her dad had been sick. I told her I wanted to write him a letter and that night I went home and started it. I wanted to tell him that just by being acknowledged as a human being from such an important man set me on a path to try to be and do the same, to acknowledge and validate the people who sometimes need it most. But I didn’t get to. Steven passed away yesterday and I cannot tell you how much regret I’m living with today. This man altered the course of my life, who I was and who I would be, and therefore altered the course of skateboarding‘s history... and he didn’t even know it. So my point is this; do not wait. Stay up that extra hour, finish what you started. Tell people they mean something. Forgive them. Acknowledge their achievements. Don’t be afraid. Be kind and please help change the path of people’s lives the way Steven changed mine. - sb

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