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demmiblue

(36,845 posts) Mon Oct 7, 2019, 10:34 AM Oct 2019

Is it too late to start?

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Is it too late to start? (Original Post) demmiblue Oct 2019 OP

Tolstoy's bicycle ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2019 #1

eppur_se_muova

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1. Tolstoy's bicycle ...

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Mon Oct 7, 2019, 11:25 AM

Oct 2019

How Leo Tolstoy Learned to Ride a Bike at 67, and Other Tales of Lifelong Learning

OTOH -- "It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It's a sobering thought, for example, that by the time Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." (Tom Lehrer)

If there's anyone who follows scenario #1 above, it's my dad. "Dead at 30, buried at ...." -- well, actually, he's still alive, but has spent the last several years sadly moping that he's got only a little time left, and using that as an excuse not to take in interest in much of anything. Watch him live to be 90. What a waste.

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