Joe Doesn't Surf Best Swell of the Year

Joe surfs like an average guy on an average guy's board at an average board. Joe knows that even average dog's have their day. Joe thought that his day was during Hurricane Earl. Joe surfed some larger ways for his 6'3 and felt quite confident. Joe thought that two days later it must be his day. Joe forgot that all he is a Joe and not a Kelly, or a Joel, or a Mick. Joe conducts surfing business where Joe doesn't belong, above the lip of the wave. In this fantasy land action move Joe was thinking high and lofty unJoe thoughts about himself in the fraction of the second that he might have been in air only to land squarely in Joe-land - that is wrongly and in self-destruction. Though an average Joe, the interior side of his knee was able to touch the top of board at the time his was touching the top. Joe then found out that this is not what average knees can do and like a buzzer signaling his exit from non-average thinking of one's self came 'POP!' eminating from Joe's knee. Landing back in average land from fantasy land hurts. Technically speaking, it tears MCL's and then causes average Joe's to miss surfing their average beach break on the day when it is breaking above average. So Joe does not surf the best waves of the year (pictured in link). Some people think that average Joe's suffer from 'Tall Poppy' syndrome. I think average Joe's cut themselves down when they begin to act like they are Tall Poppies. This Joe now has over a month of learning the lesson of "Average people need to think average thoughts and act averagely."

Being a religious man in the true sense of the word (which is lost today), Joe is learning that surfing is not the idol that he thought it might be. For we often learn what our idols are when they are taken away from us.