Let's get physical
GQ South Africa|October - November 2023
Author, speaker and social activist Craig Wilkinson challenges the skewed correlation between fitness and age
Craig Wilkinson
Let's get physical

THE DEFINITION OF HELL IS AT THE END OF YOUR LIFE, the person you became will meet the person you could have become. This quote from an unknown source drives home the sad reality that most men reach the end of their lives without ever becoming all they were made to be. Motivational speaker Les Brown summed it up when he said, “the graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered.”

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