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WanderingEng  ·  2195 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Solo kayaking across the Atlantic at the age of 70

    You can be made small by life or rage against it. “Nie chce byc malym szarym czlowiekiem,” he told me. “I do not want to be a little gray man.” This is a common expression in Poland — and a good motto for us all.

I can relate to this. He's pushing a lot further than I want to at 70, but I don't want to be a fragile old man.