ENJOYING THE OLD AGE

06 Oct 2017
ENJOYING OLD AGE

Some say it old age, others say it is the ripe age but I stress it is the right age.  No matter, with as much ill comforts, little ailments  with neat habits and diligent practices you can overcome any difficulties and enjoy the richness of life.  I have decided to start loving my semi- retired life fully with practices I  make my habits in the remaining period of my life.   The practices I would like to follow are:

1              Exhaustive reading both newspaper articles, book of fiction (then and now)
2             Jotting down important points coming across in the old unused diaries
3             Regular light exercise like walking, shopping and gardening etc
4             Keeping engaged in kitchen services
5             Trying hand in experiments in light dishes that suit your appetite
6             Light diet with smoking and drinking holiday
7             Engaging in part-time job services of your past experience
8             Keeping socially engaged with old friends and colleagues
9             Keeping away from fresh investments, purchases and income generating/loosing adventures
10          Morally supporting your children
11           Evening prayer and a good night sleep
12          Amicable relationship with your life partner

Writing my experiences in life was my ambition right from my college days when I had dreamt of becoming a writer.  As time passed these ideas faded away and now it is limited to writing a blog which I have started two months back after seeing many bloggers in “The Hindu”.  Shiv Viswanathan, Suhasini Haider, Vidya Ram, Rohan Premkumar, A S Panneerselvam are some of my favourite bloggers.   I have also started spending money on new books of my favourite writers like Paulo Coelho, Danielle Steel, Chetan Bhagat. Wherever mention of new writers are there in the magazines depending on the review the names are noted in the ‘to be bought’ list in the diaries.   Another interesting reading column in the Hindu is the short write up about Economics, Politics and Finance where old luminaries are illustrated in the present context.

If the night sleep was on time, as mostly won’t be due to late night arrival of Johny after the recent promotion. Arriving late after office and personal engagements, keeping awake till mid night and beyond, sleeplessness after the usual bedtime,  makes the start up drowsy. A full glass of fresh filtered water before and after bed makes system cooling always.  Goes out for buying of milk,  dividing into three cups for pre heating in the micro wave oven mixed with freshly ground pepper and a pinch of cardamom  without sugar is the next in take.   While my wife is busy in preparing breakfast and take away lunch for Johny, I will be attending the cleaning of up-stair house or cleaning the car from dust and mud of previous day.   Breakfast menu may change depending on the availability of the ground wet flour, but the take away lunch consists of 5 chapatis and side dish.  Mini side dish consist of cut vegetables or fruits.  The side dish for chapatis  would consist of egg onion masala,  potato curry, paneer capsicum, chicken gravy or chow-chow masala distributed each day.

After seeing off Johny by opening the gate signalling the inflow of traffic of school goers the reading chair and writing table will be placed in the portico for reading news paper.  After scanning the important headlines announcement will come for the breakfast time.  Will  complete breakfast in the company of my best half again I will go back to the unfinished task of reading news paper articles.  Hindu crossword was a favourite test vocabulary building exercise earlier.  Now it has become   more tiring and time consuming and hence gave up trying it.  Editorial and letters to the editor are my favourite two segments in the paper.  Next goes to articles written by favourite bloggers. 

On the writing pad, a pen yellow highlighter and the diary will be placed for keeping note of important words, sentences or quotes.  These quotes are an important link for my vocabulary and computing of sentences.  On the writing table I used to keep two additional books; one relating to unfinished fiction I am reading now and another personality development workbook of either Napoleon Hill or Robin Sharma.  When I get bored with the articles in   the Hindu I will turn to fiction or the other book.  But I will never forget to note important quotes from either of them.  Reading continuously makes me drowsy, at that time enter kitchen to make a lemon juice with less salt in hot water.  This exercise will re energise me a little to continue what I have been doing before.  Going through WhatsApp messages from friends group was another important task which I am thinking of curtailing due to not so palatable gossips and one sided opinions about the political situation in the country. 

 Lunch will be ready sharp at 12.00 noon.  For the sake of not rushing for food immediately will wait for a little more time for lunch.  Immediately after lunch it time for an afternoon nap which has become an important luxury in my day to day activities.
A two hour nap and a shower in cold water makes the evening fresh again.   Black tea without sugar and two biscuits or some other snacks makes the evening to rejuvenate further.   Viewing the email messages for the day, replying to important messages or deleting the unwanted junk mails will take a little evening time, and again I go back to the books till late night.  In between I will find time for family prayers and dinner.  Family prayer is between me and my wife with a rosary, two bible reading and prayer for intentions.  Video chat with Tina is another important activity in the evening and it happens after 8.00 and may go for an hour or so depending on the mood of Aarya and Ananya.  Sound of car arrival will sound by Johny and I will run to open the door.
Todays activity is over…. Good Night…….


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