While We Can
“While we can,” is probably as good a reason as anyone has come up with for doing something now that you may not be able to do once you get older. I’m talking about things that may be beyond my capacity in the not-too-distant future. It’s why I cycle and ski as much as I can now. I hope to be able to do those things for a long time, but there are no guarantees. Even if you’re younger than I am, you might want to give this a bit of thought.
My goal is to be skiing at age 100. Of course that will take a bit of luck and I won’t be skiing then, the way I do now. It will be flat-skiing on blue runs with body weight carefully distributed over the center of my skis in as leisurely a manner as possible, but at least if the future unfolds the way I want it to, I will be skiing or something that closely approximates that.
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