Climbing Hills
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My friend Axel Emmerman who lives in Belgium
just had his gall bladder removed. And a few months ago he had bypass surgery for his heart. But even so he is in good spirits and all full of it just like always.
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By e-mail we were comparing our various "old man" diseases, and I said to him, "Getting old sucks, but it sure beats the alternative." And here is his response. I feel so incredibly honored. He wrote this himself, just for me:
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You fight and win as much as you can. After every hill that you climb there's the freewheeling down the other side.
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Finally will come the one that makes you forget about the next hill to climb. Somewhere on the way up you just look back and there you see all those little foothills that you conquered... There are so many of them that they disappear in the distance of the past horizons. Then, a little sad but also a little proud, you kick off your shoes and take the nap.
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It's the same for us all...
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My friend Axel Emmerman who lives in Belgium
just had his gall bladder removed. And a few months ago he had bypass surgery for his heart. But even so he is in good spirits and all full of it just like always.-
By e-mail we were comparing our various "old man" diseases, and I said to him, "Getting old sucks, but it sure beats the alternative." And here is his response. I feel so incredibly honored. He wrote this himself, just for me:
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You fight and win as much as you can. After every hill that you climb there's the freewheeling down the other side.
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Finally will come the one that makes you forget about the next hill to climb. Somewhere on the way up you just look back and there you see all those little foothills that you conquered... There are so many of them that they disappear in the distance of the past horizons. Then, a little sad but also a little proud, you kick off your shoes and take the nap.
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It's the same for us all...
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