Semi- retirement

It has been quite a while since I have resigned my job. Yes resigned the job in such times, had everybody thinking I had lost my marbles. But no, I was just plain tired of being cubed! ( hours cooped up in front of the comp). And I had had enough of communication via email. So when I resigned, and moved to Panchgani after a few days, I loved not being connected via mobile or internet. It was just so lovely to get up and watch the clouds drift by, the birds flit from branch to branch, observe the squirrel balance on the telephone wire, and oh just to sit and look out of the window was bliss.

These days one hardly ever gets time to sit and stare and absorb the beauty around. So busy working, to make ends meet and do they meet? We make money so that we can buy the stuff we aim for- music, books, better technology, but how much of quality time do we spend on that which we invest in?

Now I read my books listen to music, yes watch TV also, enjoy my home that I have furnished so lovingly. I think and say if I were to get old, I would not have the eyesight to read the books that have piled up that I want to read, see the movies I want to watch, bad hearing would not let me listen to the tiniest of tweets from the birds. So this is what I did- chucked a job that was paying me quite well but not opening up my mind nor engaging it or challenging it. Yes, if I got aggressive, maybe the turns and twists on the job would have gotten me somewhere. But why would I need to use aggression? Is that the only way to prove yourself worthy? An article in the newspaper today, did say that you need to be aggressive to be noticed. Yes it is true in the world of today, you need to be aggressive, network like crazy, to make yourself noticed. But all I want to do was just live a good life, fight a cause worthy of fighting, take a stand and be aggressive to make this world a better place and not be aggressive to push a new technology.

Yes today I am less in pocket, but much happier somewhere I am tuning myself to what must now come- the balanced life.