With
improved health care system and modern medicines people are living long. People are working and learning new skills in
later part of their lives. Previously most lived a sedentary life after retirement from employment. Of course, there are a lot more who have to
work without retirement for ends to meet.
Here I am talking about those lucky ones who are employed by state or in
reputed private sectors and have retirement with certain benefits and can lead
a leisure life.
Yes. After working tirelessly for long years to
spend leisurely life is worth it. But is
sedentary life a happy life? Retirement
and sedentary life makes one feel the impact of biological age and boredom of
inactivity leads to impassive life. To
have a happy and healthy post retirement life it is good to learn some new
skill or start doing the activities one always felt like doing in younger days
and could not due to pressures of family and its progress.
Recently I
had gone on a photo tour and met Ms. Aruna Berry. She retired from state academic services few
years ago. On retirement her daughter
presented her a DSLR camera and took her out for photo tours. And now she is a passionate photographer and
takes wonderful pictures. She is also
got trained for marathon races and often participates and wins. I was very much impressed with her attitude
towards life and being always bubbling with enthusiasm to learn new
skills. We had gone for Tiger’s nest
monastery in Paro. This is located at
mountain cliff at 3,120M above Paro valley.
Most said that it will take at least 2-4hrs trekking up and coming
down. Aruna Berry along with her
daughter and others took about 3hrs to reach and another two hours to come
down. I along with my husband took five
hours to reach monastery and four hours to come down. I understood her training for marathon races
made her compete with youngsters.
I have seen
another woman who could easily be a septuagenarian at Arnold Arboretum in
Boston. She is working as tour guide
here. As she was guiding us through the
important areas in the arboretum, she was moving so fast that it was difficult
for me to keep pace with her. Regular
physical exercise makes one fit and healthy whatever is the age.
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| PC - Abhishek Singh, Professsioonal Photographer, Artist, Teacher |
So whatever
is the age one should strive to maintain physical fitness with good diet,
physical exercise and healthy lifestyle to live happy and peaceful life till
last breath.
