Diana Nyad: Giving life everything we’ve got

Meditative Story

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Mental Health, Society & Culture, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Stories, Health & Fitness, Storytelling, Society And Culture

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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By the 1980s, Diana Nyad had left competitive swimming behind, embarking on a successful career as a sports broadcaster. But after a meeting with “Superman” actor Christopher Reeve — whose throw from a horse left him paralyzed from the shoulders down — she is reminded of a challenge that fueled her early athletic ambitions, and re-commits to living everyday just past the limit of what seems endurable.

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1:13.9	And it's that one work of hers.
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1:37.4	turned 60. I'm ready. I'm ready to catapult myself back to not a fingernail better.
1:47.0	It's been decades since I've been a champion swimmer,
1:51.0	but one epic venture still swims around in the back of my imagination.
1:57.0	It's known as the Mount Everest of the Earth's oceans,
2:00.0	the crossing between Havana and Key West.
2:03.0	I tried it once, way back at age 28, and failed. By the 1980s, Diana Nyad had left competitive swimming behind, embarking on a successful career as a sports broadcaster.
2:22.0	But after a meeting with Superman actor Christopher Reeve,
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