Skiing Persuasive Essay Writing

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In my mind, I have always associated freedom with adventures: mostly with outdoor adventures. I feel the most free by doing the thing I love the most: skiing. I live for those perfect powder days, filled with sunshine and joy. The days when you’re the first one at the top of the chairlift, and what you see in front of you is breathtaking: everything is covered in snow, sparkling from the sunlight. Then your skis dive into deep, fresh snow and you get to make the first turns down the mountain, leaving fresh tracks behind you. You feel like you have everything under control, but you’re pushing yourself to the limits at the same time, trying to go as fast as you can. All your problems disappear, and at that moment, the whole world just makes sense. You feel free. …show more content…

I realized that I can feel just as free, if not even more, by just lying in my bed. I never thought about it that way, but reading can offer you all magnitudes of freedom. You can be whoever you want to be and wherever you want to be. There are no limits when it comes to reading. All you need is a little bit of imagination, and you can be walking down the streets in Paris, or flying over London on your flying broom. Growing up, we had one television in our house, and most of the time my older brother would take control of the remote. After I would argue with him and lose, I would have no choice but to go in my room and read. I preferred reading over watching movies anyway, I just wanted to give my brother a good fight. I liked reading better because I had the power to choose what the scenery and characters looked like. If they turn one of my favorite books into a movie, I am usually disappointed because it is never the way I imagined

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