Russian Alexandra Vasyutina, aged 81, runs 110 kilometers in a day of non-stop running. She likes. And the German Ingeborg Moots at 75 became a broker on the stock exchange and earned a million. And the British nurse Kate D’Arcy fled to Hollywood at 70, where she successfully began her career as a young actress.
And the Russian Valentin Badich at 75 hangs around the clubs and dances all night long. Nice dancing, by the way! And the Englishman Roger Allsopp swam the English Channel at the age of 70. And the Japanese Shigeo Tokuda at the age of 60 took and became a porn star. And now, at 78, he is at the zenith of his career and continues to work. And the Indian Fauja Singh ran the London Marathon at 103. So what? He runs it every year. Ever since I started running marathons at 80.
And all of these seem to be surprising exceptions to the rule. And in fact – quite the opposite.
Have you ever thought that no one has ever lived as long as we have? No seriously. In the entire history of mankind, there has never been a generation with such a life expectancy as ours.
The ancient Roman died on average before the age of 22. Those born in 1900 died before they reached fifty. Those born in 1930 did not live past sixty. In today’s world, old age begins at 80! We live the longest. We age the slowest. Even from the generation of our parents, we are separated by 15-20 years of age difference. At fifty we feel the way our parents felt at thirty. And at eighty – the way they felt at sixty. Simply put, even compared to our parents, we got 20 extra years of life. So let’s try to enjoy them! In today’s world after fifty, absolutely everything is possible – a new profession, new hobbies, a new career, new love, new impressions, new joys.
Believe it or not, today, after fifty, is potentially the happiest time of our lives. The time of “dream come true” and great personal freedom. A time that is far superior in quality to youth, because it combines energy, freedom from social obligations and life experience, together allowing you to get the most out of life.
Of course, no one taught us how to live after fifty, for the simple reason that earlier after fifty it was supposed not to continue to live, but to begin to die. Well, what is it? Let’s study. This experience, by the way, will help our children and grandchildren a lot.
Every third child born in Europe last year will live beyond 100 years.
So it goes.