It's great that not all older people treat their beautiful age as a quiet and patient expectation of their last days. Many of them remain at this time filled with undying love for every day of life and consider this period an opportunity to comprehend new heights.
For example, Andora Quinby from the USA became interested in weightlifting at the age of eighty. She is now eighty-eight years old and weighs less than sixty, but she still lifts forty-five kilograms.
Went down skiing from Mount Kilimanjaro and down the icy descent from Everest at the age of seventy Japanese Miura Keizo. Today he has already passed his centenary, but still does not part with skis for 6 months a year, conquering new and new snow slopes.
If you think that Russian elderly people are far removed from their foreign peers, then this is not so. Remember a resident of Moscow, a hereditary miner who, at the age of seventy-eight, conquered a marathon in four hours and seventeen minutes. Ten years have passed, and he continues to train,runs long distances, pushes up to a hundred and thirty times, takes a steam bath in a Russian bath and dives into an ice hole or into icy water.
Many ladies amaze the world when they take part in the show jumping of beauties, the idea of which belongs to the Swiss. For the first show in the world, lonely, elderly people who have reached the age of seventy were invited. The photo of the winner, who became the first beauty queen in this category - Leontina Vallad from Geneva - flew around the world.
Alfred Collins started working as a taxi driver in London long before the outbreak of World War II, now he is ninety, and he continues to drive a city taxi. And a we althy eighty-year-old Brazilian, out of great mutual love, married a young, very rich compatriot who had reached only fourteen years old.
Often older people surprise others with curious acts. An example of this is the story of a pensioner from Germany. Upon learning that a new currency, the euro, was being introduced in the country, he considered that his savings had come to an end. In frustrated feelings, the man simply threw thirty thousand marks into the toilet and flushed the water. The result is the world's most expensive sewer clog.
Plumbers called to eliminate the accident pulled out banknotes from an unsuitable place for them and explained to the disappointed culprit of the incident that for this money he could get more than fifteen thousand euros at the exchange rate. In this regard, older people in Germany are ina better position than the residents of the CIS. We can say that they are really lucky, because each of them can still exchange old money for new, which is not available to us.
And how nice it is to see photos of older people on blogs and social networks! Here they actively share their achievements in sports, in hobbies, talk about tourist trips, spiritual growth and love.
In conclusion, I would like to wish that older people continue to surprise us with their enthusiasm and inspiration.
