You evenutally should move on with your life and give up skiing

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^OP's mom's tits getting splooged on by two massive black cocks
 
OP's entire argument isn't even about skiing, but instead about partying and drinking. There is nothing wrong with partying and drinking, as long as you get your work/school shit done before, then you can spend your weekends/freetime doing that. Oh and as for relationship building? Most people who go out to social gatherings (aka parties/bars) go with friends/significant others, sounds like you have been doing it wrong this whole time.

Now giving up skiing is actually a somewhat feasible argument just because it is really time consuming activity and can get in the way of your ambitions I honestly think next year is my last year of being able to ski regularly, after that I will most likely be looking at a few weekends a month if I am lucky.
 
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OP you suck. Skiing and partying are not related in my mind what so ever.

im 21, 4th year of college, probably going for 8. Im in honors 3.5+gpa

ive 'partied' nearly every weekend since age 17, and i dont plan on stopping on the whim "i think i need to grow up and move on"
 
while i in no way am taking your argument seriously, i think it's fair to say that the party lifestyle of being a dickhead on the weekends has to wind down eventually, but that's no reason why anyone should stop skiing no matter what stage of life they're in
 
I think OP went about this wrong, but overall he is correct.

I dont think he's saying give up skiing all together, more of that you've got to have a life outside of skiing, which I agree with. Nothing wrong with loving skiing, I sure do, but I also have goals and aspirations outside of skiing.

i know plenty of people that are wildly successful that love to ski, but its within reason, its taking your kids to race practice, owning a second home in the mtns, etc. Yes its weekend warrior status, but skiing isnt the be all end all in life. I also do agree with one of the posters in here about skiing being a life long activity, its true, I will be skiing until I cannot walk, but i also wont be a broke ass ski bum either.

coming from someone that had a sobering realization 2 days ago that so far this year with 50 days, I probably wont ever ski more than 50 days again until I retire. thats scary, but its also time to grow up and start working 70 hours a week.
 
i know this is a troll thread, but i see literally nothing wrong with being a ski bum. do what you love and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. if you love making money that's fine too, but don't apply your values to everyone else's lives. i wish i was as happy as the people who ski every day.
 
This, and OP why do you think partying and drinking applies to every skier? I don't go to parties all the time and I don't drink and many of my skiing friends are the same way but we still have the same great passion for skiing.
 
this is such bullshit. You can be successful in every way and still continue skiing consistently. Im taking a class from the head of the biomed department at the U and on thursday he came in and put up a picture of him on top of superior about to drop in. He has an awesome family, hes owned tons of multi million dollar companies, he teaches, and he still has time to enjoy some skiing.
 
Troll thread...

But to anyone thinking OP is remotely right... WTF?

You do what you love and you do what you have to do to do what you love.

If your passion is skiing but you also love medicine, you go into sports medicine or work in a hospital in a ski town.

If your passion is skiing but you also love writing, then you write about skiing or you live where you can ski and you write about what it is you want to write about.

If your passion is skiing but you also love money, then you become the CFO of a ski resort.

How is this so complicated. You never give up the things in life that make you the happiest, you figure out how you can do them better.

You should only ski less if there is something in life you enjoy doing more, or if it's the only way to do that thing you enjoy more. If you absolutely want to work in Africa for the WHO, yeah, you should ski less, but you still don't need to give it up.

I feel bad for anyone that truly loves skiing but thinks that there is something more important (outside of their family/health).

Sometimes it's harder to get to the point where you can ski as often as you want but also have a career, but that's just it, it's simply harder, not impossible.
 
Fully agree OP. Many of these kids are so blinded by there love of skiing that they forget what makes skiing work in the first place. MONEY. Skiing is a "rich white kid sport" and takes a lot of money to ski. The only way to ski a lot and live comfortably is by getting a nice job which entails giving up lots of partying and skiing in the short term.
 
I think OP went about this thread all wrong. I can allllmost see what he was going for, and kind of agree, but I think he made a piss-poor argument.

I realize I'm probably in the extreme minority here, but, to me, skiing is nothing more than a hobby, not a way of life. As I've gotten older, I have realized there are more important things in life than skiing (or whatever other hobby you have) every day, and dreams of going pro and traveling the world eventually fade away. Things like school, a job, a family, etc become much more important. I still LOVE skiing, and actually have gotten out more times in the past few years than I have in a long time, but I feel like that mentality that there is nothing else but skiing is for children and people who have no real ambition other than living on a couch and eating ramen for the rest of their lives to be a ski bum.

Where OP went wrong is saying that we should all give up skiing. We should never give up skiing. I just think it's important to realize that there are more important things to focus on as we get older so that we can continue to ski forever.
 
there are a few things in the world that are an absolute must-haves for genuine happiness. and money is one of those things.unless youre some monk or hippy who likes being cold and uncomfortable, you need money to have a good life.

its nice to dream, there is a large chunk of me that is still planning on staying out west and living in the mountains, but theres another part that realises that if i want to do well i need to have money to make my life good. theres no way im going to have children if im poor, that would be depressing.

make money, then spend it on skiing
 
There is a lifty at my local mountain who is in his late sixties and he has been a lifty his whole life, he only is slightly illiterate and is missing some teeth but he is the fucking man. Therefore your point is irrelevant OP.
 
this is the best thread ever! Probably up there for holding the record of most down votes.

I'm gonna bite though. skiing isn't partying and drinking, it's skiing. partying and drinking is partying in drinking. And the beauty of being a skier? I can ski all week and hang out with the girlfriend on weekends (or you know, ski on the weekends, whatever).

Anyways...
 
This thread seems to piss everyone off. But it seems to me like there is some truth to the op although its not as dire as the op makes it seem
 
wow you re an idiot. Who said partying and drinking lifestyle is the same or anyway related to a skiing lifestyle?

a partying lifestyle is immature

a skiing lifestyle is not

learn the difference

if you are organized enough you can continue a skiing lifestyle and a career/strong relationships.
 
Last July I made the difficult desicion to move to Dallas, Texas for an amazing job opportunity. I haven't skied once this year. I miss it very much. As you grow up you just have to make some sacrifices. However, I love living in a city environment and have picked up new hobbies since I "gave up" skiing.

To the OPs point, it isn't that you should give up skiing; it's just that as you grow up and gain more responsibilities, you have to give up SOMETHING; there simply isn't enough time to enjoy all the things you did in school / college days. Plus, there's that whole supporting yourself + your family thing,
 
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