CHAPTER FOUR
AT 46 years old I decided it was time to design my future instead of it designing me. I had taken a job overseas in Taiwan as a purchaser for a large computer distributor with a plan of saving for two years then moving to Thailand. As things worked out some financial obligations came up and I stayed for four. I wanted to be able to buy a condo free and clear and have enough money to allow me to live unemployed for several years.
January 6th, I flew to Bangkok and started my new life. I had so many ambitions and dreams. It was a Wednesday so I felt like I should be working so I was a little distracted but began doing things around the house. I’m saying all this because I feel all of us that retire, semi-retire, or plan on being bums go through a type of depression and feeling of uselessness.
So I had to start thinking simple and not over thinking everything and relax. Waking up at 4AM and thinking about what if ’s just doesn’t achieve anything, just makes things worse. Until you get up and it’s not so bad anymore. It’s a daylight thing I think; night time is always worse but in the morning as you look out over Bangkok from your porch...
In the bright daylight everything is gone.
The Present Moment, the ‘Now’, is a crucial time for longevity. If you don’t keep yourself busy and making goals the days will drag on, and as boredom raises its ugly head you will eventually abandon your dreams and head back for the land you know best. Back into the life that was molding you into what it wanted you to be and worst of all, back to a job of forty hours a week doing something you didn’t want to do, clogged in that 5 o’clock rush hour on the way home.
But boredom isn’t really so bad.
Ideas come and go but I had been thinking of one for a long time. Back in 2001 I r