When skiing doesn't look the part

Spring skiing is a good mirror of human ups and downs. One day, the skies are blue, the snow perfect, and the next morning, nature looks the exact opposite. Currently, after a wonderful season on all counts, we're in the March doldrums, with rain down in Park City, snow at the top and drenched ski suit and gloves when we return home. Yet, we know that between now and mid-April, or sometime in May depending on when we'll put the boards away, there will be more glorious days, but it takes a positive imagination, a reliable memory and some good creative skills to visualize a return to these beautiful conditions, and this is exactly the way human nature works: When we flip the switch to “down” we are dropping fast and are much below the point where we should stop in reality.

I don't think elation works quite the same way, we reach and apex, but don't ever get to the stratosphere. Negative thoughts, just like the law of gravity, just don't pull us down, they generally find the way to digging a big crater for our misery to take roots. The rotten nature of the process get me too and that is when I need to pull from my lifetime memory to see that there always is sun after the rain. Well, to prove this “cycle theory” right, today is just splendid, so we're back to normal. Let's go skiing!