Secret to Life?

David Hockney
Piscine Avec Trois Bleus, 1978  colored and pressed paper pulp 72x85 1/2 in

....So was putting my shoes on at the gym, and an old (er) woman came up and asked if I had been swimming “all this time”.  I asked her, why, had she seen me come in?  She had; and she said she was about to go swim herself.  Since she had on cool pink weight-lifting gloves, I asked her if she had been lifting weights.  She said that yes. She also said that she and her husband come together and do a Tai Chi routine.  I excitedly asked if the Tai Chi teacher was back, since last I heard there was no more Tai Chi class, and I've always wanted to try taking one.  She said that no, but that her husband and she knew how to do it, so they did a couple of routines together.  After that, she told me, they go into the basketball court to "do a little dancing; ball room dancing, you know (?)".  I thought of Axel and how she used to ballroom dance, and asked if there was a class for that. She said, “No, we do it by ourselves”.  After dancing, they go up to the exercise machines, where, she told me, her husband lifts weights and she, poopooing herself, lifts just a little.  She then said they swim together to stretch out "you know".  I asked if they did this everyday.  She said, “Oh no!  Just three times a week, it takes half a day to do all this!”

--- I left wondering if this was the secret to life...  It certainly is their secret...