2) Spent a lot of time with my son (who is 12 now).Shared with him passion for reading books. Knowing languages.
3) Found out that I am not as tough as I thought myself to be.
4) Learned to understand a lot of layers in the ongoing conversations. (Earlier I only heard what was told on surface. I may be overdoing layers now)
5) I strongly believed that I will exercise once I have enough time on my hand. Guess what? Even after having all the time in the world I wasted most of it without working on reduing my weight. (obesity)
6) I wanted to taste the theory that you will not die of starvation (not in todays world). This is true. Even if you do not earn money you still can manage to have twice a day meal. (I am well educated MBA Engg et al)
7) When I saw the UNDP SDG Goals #1 Noone will be left behind. I constantly wondered if the opposite can be the case. Now I think its the government which is getting left behind. (They are so slow to adopt anything new)
8)I did a 1-year diploma in Disaster Management from Disaster management Institute. (I was in Bhopal when the worst Industrial disaster took place of Union Carbide). I learnt very little of value from classes but a lot more from educational MOOC courses.
9) Social life goes for a topsy-turn when you do not have an answer to question "What do you do for a living ?" I told them I just live, Most people did not believe me.Eventually they started distancing from me and then I found a totally new set of friends who lived nearby but had totally different value system. ( I kept my living extremely frugal)
10) These days I work with young minds and try to ignite the spark of innovation by telling them stories and work with them on the small time projects.
1) Took a mini-retirement.
2) Spent a lot of time with my son (who is 12 now).Shared with him passion for reading books. Knowing languages.
3) Found out that I am not as tough as I thought myself to be.
4) Learned to understand a lot of layers in the ongoing conversations. (Earlier I only heard what was told on surface. I may be overdoing layers now)
5) I strongly believed that I will exercise once I have enough time on my hand. Guess what? Even after having all the time in the world I wasted most of it without working on reduing my weight. (obesity)
6) I wanted to taste the theory that you will not die of starvation (not in todays world). This is true. Even if you do not earn money you still can manage to have twice a day meal. (I am well educated MBA Engg et al)
7) When I saw the UNDP SDG Goals #1 Noone will be left behind. I constantly wondered if the opposite can be the case. Now I think its the government which is getting left behind. (They are so slow to adopt anything new)
8)I did a 1-year diploma in Disaster Management from Disaster management Institute. (I was in Bhopal when the worst Industrial disaster took place of Union Carbide). I learnt very little of value from classes but a lot more from educational MOOC courses.
9) Social life goes for a topsy-turn when you do not have an answer to question "What do you do for a living ?" I told them I just live, Most people did not believe me.Eventually they started distancing from me and then I found a totally new set of friends who lived nearby but had totally different value system. ( I kept my living extremely frugal)
10) These days I work with young minds and try to ignite the spark of innovation by telling them stories and work with them on the small time projects.