“I’m a skier!”

Who are we really? Some of us are fine carpenters, other supreme chefs, great journalists and for me, I’m just a skier. Yeah, I’m the quintessential skier. I could have turned differently.

As a child, I loved to draw, imagine, think and ski. I chose the latter because it was much easier for me to succeed in it than the other two or three. It was also a lot easier to get fast gratification from it with tons of fun from the get go. 

So it became my sport of predilection (in fact, aside from hiking, the only one I knew and had been exposed to, as a child) and I made it my life, including my career. 

An easy and pleasant way into life, that didn’t change the world and certainly didn’t improve it. It just gave the richer folks that populate the richest countries an extra recreation outlet for enjoying their plush life, and that’s about it. 

If there were another turn or kind of reincarnation, I might choose to become a philosopher!