Wednesday, January 19, २०११

I remember. As a young man, I used to be so ashamed of the softness of my body. I always thought was too weak to do anything manly.

Now that I am older, I am so glad that my parents made me do chores. For it is in doing these chores that I learned to work at something until it HURT!!! I mean that each summer I worked at moving water pipes, at moving 50 lb. boxes and then 100 lb. bags of potatoes.for 12 – 20 hours a day. And I got so sore that I thought I was never going to be able to move again because of my body soreness.

In these older days of my life I have come to appreciate these earlier struggles as now I know that a little pain is worth it as I learned as a youngster these pains did nothing but make my body stronger and made me sleep better at night.

Now that I need to get into better shape I can think back on these times and realize there was an even harder time of my life. I can get into better condition without spending 20 hrs a day. And I tell each of my children nd each of my grandchildren do not be afraid of a little or a lot of work.

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