Sometimes a person chooses not to accept the pain and keep living the life they want.  For one Albert Lea High School senior that was a choice he had to make.

      From snowmobiles to cows to skid loaders, senior Mic Skaar has been through them all. Just a six-year-old boy on the farm, suddenly, smack. Skaar hit his head on a skid loader. Nine years old and living large with the cattle, but something goes wrong and instead of handling the cows, the cows are handling him, dragging him across the farm.
      A few years roll by. Skaar was snowmobiling and hit a drainage ditch. Another year another accident. In January 2011 Skaar was again snowmobiling with his friend Taylor Matz a senior at Albert Lea High School. On his way home he hit some plowing and flew across the snow.
      Skaar broke his collar bone, 3 ribs and put his arm in a sling.
“My arm in the sling was the worst of my injuries,” said Skaar.
      Skaar called up Matz and he came rushing to help.  Skaar was laying in a field not far from Matz’s house.
      “Oh crap,”  Matz said when he first found Skaar. “Here we go again.”
      Matz helped him to the hospital. He asked Skaar the basic questions as he arrived on the scene. What hurts? Whats wrong?
      With only a few scars and old broken bones, Skaar walks around in one piece.
Accidents come and go for everyone. Some choose to never do what they did to get into the accident again and some say “bring on the pain.” Skaar brings the pain on and won’t give up the things he loves. He will keep on farming and riding for the time being. Accidents in the future might come or not, but the thought won’t stop him.
      “I love farming and snowmobiling and I am not going to give either of them up,” Skaar said.