Ladies You Can Compete
Yes you can. You can do anything you want to. Amelia Earhart , Susan B Anthony, Women’s Olympic medalists, marathon runners, mountaineers, lawyers, and doctors, to name a few. Just set your mind to it and you can accomplish almost anything.
Do I talk the talk, or can I walk the walk? I am not a well known famous person, but just a woman like you. On vacation the past several years I stayed at a place where they had a forty foot climbing wall. I didn’t cringe in fear. Now I have climbed it several times. A great feeling of accomplishment.
Three years ago I took to a new sport—salt water fishing, although I had been fishing fresh water for years. Well the fish all the men want to catch is the powerful striped bass. This year I was the first person in my area to catch the largest bass. I caught it on fairly light tackle and it took forty minutes to land on shore. It measured thirty-eight inches. There were many envious people around the waterfront. No, I was not awarded a boat by Bass Pro’s. Perhaps they don’t count women. When my birthday rolls around in May the “stripers” will be heading up the coast. And I will be there to celebrate my seventy-fifth birthday and hopefully catch a bass for the record books. Ladies, as you can see age is no boundary. You can compete whether twenty or eighty.
Do you need to be a big athletic woman? Not hardly: I am 5’ 3’’ and weigh 100 pounds. Well, ladies set your goals and just go for it.
Sylvia Reilly Collins
1/19/2012
