My younger daughter, Olivia, hugging me before
flying off to Hong Kong, said anxiously to me,
"Take care of yourself. Be careful in whatever you do."
My wife who was accompanying her, echoed, "Yes, be careful. Take things easy. Relax. Don't always rush into doing things."
I replied, "Don't worry. I'll be okay. Enjoy yourselves in Hong Kong".
After they had left, a conversation, with a friend - an athletics coach - a few years ago, crossed my mind. He was then trying to persuade me to take up athletics again in my junior senior years as he knew I was a former combined-school athlete.
My friend, the coach, had said, "C'mon, you can do it again. You are still fast and strong on the tennis courts. You can take part in the veteran 100m and 200m. I will train you."
" No, I can't. I haven't run the sprints for such a long time. It's different from tennis. I might suffer a heart attack on the tracks! " I had replied.
"C'mon. Don't worry about that. We can start slowly. Everything will be okay. Nothing will happen. People do die at home from accidents," he had continued.
I had laughed at his statement that fatal accidents could happen at home. I refused to train for the veteran athletics meet.
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Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Law
Dedicated to the memory to Arthur Spykerman - a friend and confidant.
"Take care of yourself. Be careful in whatever you do."
My wife who was accompanying her, echoed, "Yes, be careful. Take things easy. Relax. Don't always rush into doing things."
I replied, "Don't worry. I'll be okay. Enjoy yourselves in Hong Kong".
After they had left, a conversation, with a friend - an athletics coach - a few years ago, crossed my mind. He was then trying to persuade me to take up athletics again in my junior senior years as he knew I was a former combined-school athlete.
My friend, the coach, had said, "C'mon, you can do it again. You are still fast and strong on the tennis courts. You can take part in the veteran 100m and 200m. I will train you."
" No, I can't. I haven't run the sprints for such a long time. It's different from tennis. I might suffer a heart attack on the tracks! " I had replied.
"C'mon. Don't worry about that. We can start slowly. Everything will be okay. Nothing will happen. People do die at home from accidents," he had continued.
I had laughed at his statement that fatal accidents could happen at home. I refused to train for the veteran athletics meet.
ltbs
Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Law
Dedicated to the memory to Arthur Spykerman - a friend and confidant.
