It is great that not all elderly people regard their great age as a quiet and patient expectation of their last days. Many of them remain at this time filled with unquenchable love for every day of life and consider this period an opportunity to comprehend new heights.
For example, Andorra Quinby from the USA was fond of weightlifting already approaching at the age of eighty. Now she is eighty-eight years old and weighs less than sixty, but at the same time lifts a weight of forty-five kilograms.
Skied down Mount Kilimanjaro and on the icy descent from Everest at the age of seventy, the Japanese Miura Keizo. Today, he has already overcome the centenary, but he still does not leave his skis for 6 months a year, conquering new and new snowy slopes.
If you think that Russian elderly people have gone far from their foreign peers, then this is not so. Remember a resident of Moscow, a hereditary miner who at seventy-eight years in four hours and seventeen minutes conquered the marathon. Ten years have passed, and he continues to engage in training,
runs long distances, squeezes from the floor up to one hundred and thirty times, soars in a Russian bath and dives into an ice hole or into icy water.
Many ladies amaze the world when they take part in competitions of beauties, the idea of which belongs to the Swiss. At the world's first show, lonely elderly people who had 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 began working as a taxi driver in London long before the
start of World War II, now he is already ninety, and he continues to drive a city taxi. And a rich eighty-year-old Brazilian, by great mutual love, married a very rich young compatriot who had reached only fourteen years old.
Often, older people surprise others with curious deeds. 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, a person simply threw thirty thousand marks into the toilet and flushed down the water. The result is the world's most expensive sewer pipe blockage.
The plumbers called to liquidate the accident pulled out banknotes from the wrong place for them and explained to the disappointed culprit of the incident that he could receive more than fifteen thousand euros at the exchange rate for that money. In this regard, older people in Germany are in a better position than residents of the CIS. We can say that they were really lucky, because each of them can still exchange old money for new ones, which is not available to us.
And it’s so nice to see photos of older people on blogs and social networks! Here they actively share their achievements in sports, hobbies, talk about tourist trips, spiritual growth and love.
In conclusion, I would like to wish older people to surprise us further with their enthusiasm and inspiration.