Replying to Skiing Term Paper HELP

My English professor assigned our term paper last week giving us the option to write about something that interests us. The main goal is to teach him about our topic whether it be how it makes you feel or why it interests you. I decided to choose skiing as my topic. More specifically I would like to focus on why skiing is so important.

I've been given the privilege to use NS as a valid source so I am planning on using some of the responses on this thread (if any LOL) in the paper to give other peoples meaning and thoughts of skiing.

PLEASE give some feedback on why skiing is important to you and/or why you decide to revolve a decent portion of your life around it; cause I surely do! I would really appreciate any response.

Thanks NS!