Dmitry A. (SLE) - On the necessity of physical development

Everything in a child needs to be developed: I went swimming, I did cross-country skiing. I really didn’t like running long distances, but in short sprints I had no equal.

<...> Before school, when I was six, I was sent to learn the violin. I was from a proper family, a professor’s family. I had to live up to it—Dimka had to go and learn the violin. Not boxing, not sambo, not axe throwing, not climbing trees—playing the violin, not even the accordion. Well, I bore that blow of fate with dignity.