You probably won’t break either. Unless you do, but it’s not too late to repair yourself. It’s probably just going to be very expensive.
The kids will always be faster.
No one can actually hear you when your skis are twisted up and you’re muttering profanities and trying to get back up.
Empty your bladder before you gear up. There is no convenient time to go pee. Is there ever?
Strength comes from the many times you get up after you fall. On Monday morning, your arms will hurt when you make lunches or lift your laptop onto your lap.
Up on top…it looks like a long way to the bottom. It’s not. Point your ski-tips in a good direction. Don’t fall into the ravine!
You can’t check in with your kids because that would require the skill to come to a full stop and you don’t know how to do that. (This also prevents them from asking for snacks.)
You don’t have to like scary things just because everyone else does.
But if you keep doing the scary thing, soon it will be less scary.
Ego — that thing you thought you checked at the door when you hit 30 — is actually thriving.
