Cliff Jumpers Vs Wall Hoppers
I know it has been a minute since I have been on posting on the website, but that is soon about to change! Honestly, I have been working myself to the moment where this website seems vital to the growth of this community. I want Open Gate to be a gathering place for new stoners and experienced stoners alike with the main threads connecting us all is that we love good cannabis and we support those working hard on their craft. So let’s start things back up with the things that need to be done in order to succeed: risks and the type of people that take those risks. Funny enough, it all started with the idea of creating the OG Underground magazine.
When I got the idea to create a magazine for the underground culture it really felt like a natural progression with the personal experiences I have had on my life’s journey. I have never fit in with the regular crowd and at one point in my life I hated myself for not being able to fit in. It sounds comical now but teenage hormones are real and life felt pretty low at times. It was in a rejection of the mainstream and an interest in the unique and taboo set me off in a direction that I am forever grateful for. In this rejection of popular culture, I started to find myself and what truly interested me, not just what I have been fed to think is “cool.” It was in this transitional phase in my life that I realized there is not enough out there in the world highlighting the things that I enjoy, the stuff of the underground. The space where legends are born and creativity blossoms!
So, I created Open Gate with the intention of highlighting that underground culture through the lens of something i love, cannabis. When you think of many of these underground spaces, what is one of the catalysts that helps them on their path? Cannabis. Even though a major highlight of this magazine is the underground cannabis culture, cannabis is what feeds the greater underground community. Thus all things underground are at play at OG underground magazine.
One thing that connects everyone in the underground are their abilities to face challenges and risks head on. I consider this the Cliff Jumping vs Wall Hopping mentality. Most people seem to live by a risk aversion mentality. If you do not jump off the cliff, you will not get hurt. In Their minds, living within the boundaries is the only way to survive. Why risk the comfort of stability for the inherent doom of jumping off a cliff. People of the underground on the other hand are risk takers. They look at the same situations and see the reward over the risk. These risk takers look at the risk as no more than an obstacle, a wall that needs to be climbed. It’s in this mentality that I believe the world of the underground thrives. Can you fail when you take a risk? F*#& yeah it can. But its not going to kill you, you’ll just get back up and try to climb that wall again.
This Magazine is here for all of my underground Wall Hoppers out there that do not see an obstacle as too big to overcome. We are here for you to find and enjoy underground cannabis stories, reviews, and highlights as well as general stories of the underground with those peeps that use the plant on their grind to the top. We are Wall Hoppers over here, let the cliff jumpers enjoy their Us and GQ’s while we dig into the trenches of the underground!
-Cfloody