Moving till 60 and after 60 are two different games. We need to gear up, prepare, and plan more meticulously, in both cases. First – Physically moving, travelling, visiting, connecting, conversing, and so on. Second – Both between jobs, or jobs to self-employment, freelancing, partnering, and to co-owned enterprise. We need team(s). We have agenda, vision – for our time, energy, intensity, focus, portfolio of activities, etc. Thus, we have a hazy, not so clear, 20-25 year frame. But do we have the agency for it? We want to decrease haziness, increase clarity. We may not reduce the uncertainty. This calls for ‘legacy’ thinking. I am not sure whether we only look for ‘adrenaline’ any longer. There are many aspects we ignored earlier in our rush to ‘grow’, and now they have come face to face. We need to change our ways of work. We may be slow with hands and legs. We may run on the heart, mind, and soul. We may transcend data, information. To knowledge. Aggression to working around. Also, we are not ready to retire. We need to be engaged fully. Probably more usefully. Probably more productively, efficiently, and effectively. If only we see through, and get ready for the same.
Each Gurukulam system we are entering into has its own challenges, tests. Gurus would not take us unless we are ready. Even the 60+ Gurukulams, or earlier entering Sagar.
I completed my Class 10 and went home, with no concern about what next. With the false assurance that I will go to Sagar for sure. Then, typhoid took over; did not see the ad for application; did not apply; went to Residential Society Secretary, asking for permission to let me apply, and write the entrance; was denied by saying ‘if so interested, come next year’; joined a local college in Hyderabad. Meanwhile, I got a National Talent Search Scholarship, probably for the first time to a Telugu medium student, with National second mark or so. I also participated in the Mathematical Olympiad. Society Secretary, returned back; Suo moto went after the system for taking me into Sagar gurukulam, making many exceptions. Sagar, peers, and teachers made a huge difference in my evolution.
How are we getting money, power, authority, control et al? Because we can deploy some knowledge, skills, tools, and resources – time, energy and other, for servicing needs, aspirations of people around us, anywhere in this world? How do we accumulate these differentially? Did we start with a different base(s), compared to most others? If we are not born equal, will our constitution(s), human charters not guarantee this? How come there is a wage differential of more than 100 times the minimum? How can the resources multiply 100 times a year? How can the returns on investment be 100 times the maximum interest a bank is willing to pay? How can someone get ‘income’ without work and investment? And are these demand-supply markets fair? Are they not manipulated? How can the money be made, authority obtained, control achieved without the due processes? And why do the society, culture, system, and justice system let this happen? And why do most of us keep quiet? When the crunch comes, these equations, flows, and systems – do they matter? Why do we lead some 1000 moon lives – for what ends, with what means, with what legacy to leave behind? Can we do our ‘bit’ to keep the planet earth, universe for NextGen intact, maybe better?
Can we care to journey, see, meet, converse, experience with marginalized in situ, difference makers on ground, to take their lives and destinies in their hands? Can we be with them, with this?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we are communities flowing. In N? upaantayoga for 7L.
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