Dear Day 2500,
This makes 6.84 years of it, now! As for how long it has been just even trying on a less than daily schedule, well, I think it has been since 2008. There were the years when I was a kid, too, but I guess that is now the smallest of the portions.
You don't need to skate everyday; but, you know, you could skate on one of the 365 days we have here ahead of us! How about you say: I will skate once in the month of April? Then you maybe say, I will skate 3 times this summer? Once during the holidays? The reason you might want to skate on more than one day, is that some days are tougher to skate on. You don't feel brave, for example, or your balance is a trifle iffy, or you are tired, or irritable (and who isn't?). You don't want your once a year skating to be a negative experience, so you really should consider scheduling at least two times to skate. After you have done those two times, you can see how you feel about the next two times.
If you have already committed to a more than once in a lifetime skating schedule, then think about this destination as a possible pilgrimage: The Skate Ribbon!
For myself, I am contending with the troublesome concept of 'improvement,' of 'getting better' at this or that skating thing. I cannot express to you how much un-fun the measurement of improving brings me- I want to be without this bug-a-boo, this albatross of 'progress.' Not just in my skating, either- but, when you take that away, that striving, it's a strangely empty room. What do you pursue, if you don't pursue improvement, success, more-ness? Of course the daily effort is a kind of striving, or at least a 'counting up,' and what for, I wonder?
Claire Dederer writes, on page 342 of her book Poser, "But here's the truth: the longer I do yoga, the worse I get at it. I can't tell you what a relief it is." Now, yes, yes, yoga has a baked in Zen-like acceptance of the moment, of the doing, but she wrote it about her thinking she would continue to improve; to get better and better, and this is a helpful balm for me and my thoughts.
PS If you are not presently in the angst of these contradictions in your roller skating, I suggest you plan a little pilgrimage to this amazing thing: A Skate Ribbon!
