The philosophy of the mountain goat

I recently met an old lady learning how to drive and wanted to pluck her out of that old car through its little window and hug her like I've not hugged anyone lately. You have got to love an old lady with the heartbeat of an optimist; defying wrinkles and the stoop of old age to learn a new thing and fulfill the desire of the heart that her younger phase of life denied her.

The mountain goat has amazing resilience

Often I hear people disqualify themselves saying things like, "I'm too old to dance ballet", "going to Nambole to watch a live match is for young guns like you" etc. In consequence they live boring lives and die having not lived at all, which is sad considering the variety of pulsating and adrenaline-inducing ventures the world longs to blow us away with.

We're given one life that must be lived to the full. I want to believe Neil Armstrong was not the best qualified astronaut, but was the keenest and most daring, and that earned him special pleasure and legacy as the first man to step on the moon. Which should provoke us to live without excuses and invoke the courage in us to pursue what we want to pursue, get where we want to get and be what we want to be. 

It may require digging deep like Sepp Blatter did to master the world's five major languages. His ability to speak fluent Italian, English, French, German and Spanish gave him a cutting-edge that lasted him 17 years as FIFA boss. 

"I'm a mountain goat that keeps going and going," he once bragged, "I cannot be stopped, I just keep going."

It's amazing that Blatter's philosophy was learned from that stubbornly adventurous animal. It's a philosophy that we must all espouse. Like the old lady taking driving lessons, we must keep going and learning no matter what.