We have such selective memories! And the photos we take, and the photos we upload to social media, affect our memories hugely. Skiing is a great example of that. The percentage of time actually zooming down a perfect sunny slope is tiny compared to all the hassle. Maybe worth it, maybe not – but it’s worth trying to assess our decisions with all the facts. Some people log their time, maybe just for a week, to get the facts rather than deluding themselves – that could be interesting.
Here’s a suggestion of what you’d find on a typical ski holiday!
This is great Chris, many years ago before we had the connectivity we now have we took the kids to one of those theme parks with the big rides – on the way home we calculated the time spent travelling and standing in queues compared to actually being scared witless (me anyway) and it came out at approx 7 hrs for the former and around 30 minutes of rides – then factored in the cost and it was many pounds per minute of riding. I asked them if in the future they would rather spend the day at the beach or a park and have a tenner each for ice creams etc – never went to a theme park again. Kevin Mcloud makes a similar point about building a garden barbecue against having a little portable one