Come on now! You don’t expect personal finance dope on a blog called Love luck & laughter, do you? This is about my ‘other retirement plans’ most of which I’ve been tweaking and turning since aeons. And now that it’s time for my open-eyed power nap, blogging it somehow seems more constructive than just daydreaming it. Here goes...
- Surface for air. Take in a lungful or two. Plunge in again - into a new life, that is.
- Take a long vacation with family – somewhere on this beautiful planet.
- Take a vacation from this planet – earn enough to afford that.
- Learn to dance like Shakira. Hold on, this shouldn’t be on this list – by retirement, I might not have this waistline!
- Get that black belt in unarmed military combat – was supposed to join this in May 2005. Shouldn’t be on this list either.
Expect an update on 4 and 5 max by March-April this year. If you don’t, please be nice enough to remind me of this post. - Learn Indian classical vocal music – this is strictly post retirement.
- Read all the books from the ‘books to read before you die’ list.
- Write a book or two, or three or....
- Watch all the movies from the ‘films to watch before you die’ list.
- Make a movie (?) Maybe. Perhaps. Sort of. Sure. Why not? We’ll see.
- Build a world class school and library in Ma’s hometown and get the girls there to join it. (Till date, she remains the only girl to have moved out of that small, extremely conservative north Indian town for higher studies. But, not everyone has the family support that she had, that too in the sixties. I didn’t – not even in the nineties!)
- Set up a home for the homeless (A 50-seater start wouldn’t be bad at all. Ok, will start with 10 if I have to). This after I get my first holiday home somewhere in the mountains – of course, I am my first priority!
Big dreams, no money, not a single soul in my network willing to fund or help raise funds either. Will have grey hair by the time I have the influence to raise funds for 11 and 12! - Subject to further siestas and the shape of things to come.
That’s my lucky number. I’m done with this list for now and feeling relatively awake. All I need now is chai - manna from heaven it is! If you see me losing track of this list, let me know.
