Comments on: Dazed and Confused…and Necessary?

By: indrajitrathore

indrajitrathore — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:44:34 +0000

I felt uneasy and restless when i retired from 37 years of diplomatic life – there was no financial compulsion to work, yet the uncertainty what next persisted. THEN came retirement and i suddeenly found that i had won the most precious thing that life has to offer – FEE, ENDLESS TIME – much more valuable than say winning a lottery for a million dollars! With this unexpected new found wealth, in the past 10 years of total freedom from anxiety about my next posting (except when they persist in dreams), undesirable bosses etc etc etc and the greater freedom to use this wealth as i please and when i please i have set about doing all the things i dreamed of – rearing budgrigars, breeding rare siamese fighting fish ( to my wife’s horror), recreating a defunct museum in my city ( today the best in India!!), working on sound and light shows at monuments at my city, writing a book on the Hindu scripture the Gita, launching it at a great literary festival in my city(Jaipur) – first edition actually sold out – working on a heritage law for my region, working on a book about my ancestry (yet to be published), writing poetry and now venturing tentatively into the world of blogging. Every morning i wake up looking forward to something new, excited like a kid – with all the time in the world i get the sense im short of it – gives you a sense of how precious it is even in abundance! All my work is gratis – no charge – which makes my joy unrestrained and fulsome – and when those working hecticly, as i used to do in service, ask sceptically of a retired gentleman now 72 – hey how do you pass your time, my reply is sir, im busy without business

By: drinkingtodistraction

drinkingtodistraction — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:13:41 +0000

Thank you, Elizabeth.

By: drinkingtodistraction

drinkingtodistraction — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:13:19 +0000

Thanks, Lee. I think I’m just starting to realize what you said is true. This IS it. Nowhere to get to.

By: drinkingtodistraction

drinkingtodistraction — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:12:18 +0000

I couldn’t have said it any better. Thank you.

By: drinkingtodistraction

drinkingtodistraction — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:11:27 +0000

Thanks, Bill. I’m working on it

By: drinkingtodistraction

drinkingtodistraction — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:10:59 +0000

Thank you, Jasmine, for your comments and for what you do. We’re always in some sort of transition, right? Wishing you all the best.

By: drinkingtodistraction

drinkingtodistraction — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:09:51 +0000

Thank you, Pamela. I’m flattered. Writing and practicing is helping. Your kind words are taken to heart.

By: elizabeth2560

elizabeth2560 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:51:32 +0000

Very brave to expose your soul and vulnerability.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:00:21 +0000

As Enzo said, in the book “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, “That which you manifest is before you.” Everything that you described IS the journey. No place to go, no place we need to be. We are already there. Doubt, confusion, fear, takes us out of that. Instead of pushing or shoving our emotions under to keep ourselves from understanding their nature, we instead need to embrace them and see them for what they are: barriers to our true self, which is, as we know, no self at all. Emotions and constantly giving in to them lead me directly to that glass of wine. I so admire your 5 years alcohol free.

By: Chico

Chico — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:38:33 +0000

Reblogged this on Sixty and Single Again.