World, Writing, Wealth discussion

It's not a ten-year plan, nor an outline -:) However as much as people wonder about a different path in the past, many try to project the future and maybe even take steps for its realization.
What's your vision?

6ft under or blown to the wind or recycled somewhere out at sea.

GR wrote: "6ft under or blown to the wind or recycled somewhere out at sea."

Love your healthy optimism, GR -:)

GR wrote: "6ft under or blown to the wind or recycled somewhere out at sea."

You're not the only one headed that way. We all are, GR.

At my age, I also don't make ten year plans.

If all goes well for me, in ten years I will be fully retired (except from writing books) and going on vacation every year overseas with my wife and younger son (who has a slight mental disability and lives at our home). By then, I will probably have increased further my book production, from an average of two per year to 3-4 per year. As for what happens for the rest of the World, I will hope for the best but expect the worst (I have no illusions about the human capacity for stupidity).

Some solid plan, Michel! I wish you could plan something nice for the rest of the world too -:)

Retired and traveling, I hope :)

Ambitious -:)

Nik wrote: "Some solid plan, Michel! I wish you could plan something nice for the rest of the world too -:)"

I certainly can plan something nice for the rest of the World, Nik. The question is: will the World buy my ideas?

They don't even need to buy, as you put everything for free -:)

Touché!

I love what I'm doing. I've just started doing the publishing and will keep writing, reading and with lots more pub'd! :) Maybe sprinkle in a little more travel but I've been where I wanted to go, except Mars :) but after watching what it takes for a year in space (NASA watcher), hmm, I don't think so. I need the outdoors! :)

Does anyone have a longer vista than tomorrow and a few days after? -:)

In ten years I will definitely be living in a place where it doesn't snow in mid-April and the stores sell grown-up clothes in my size.

Holly wrote: "In ten years I will definitely be living in a place where it doesn't snow in mid-April and the stores sell grown-up clothes in my size."

-:) Sounds like complete happiness is within arm's reach

If I survive I'll be retired - I have a beach picked out. I may still write I may not

Then again I could be working trying to pay for nursing care.

Then again...

Hope the path to the beach will remain unobstructed and eventualities don't interfere

Nik wrote: "Does anyone have a longer vista than tomorrow and a few days after? -:)"

No. I have given up on long term plans. I am now in what David Suzuki called the "death zone", so my aim is to get the most out of today, and tomorrow, and think not about the longer term.

Hope death stays out of your zone for decades

Nik wrote: "Hope death stays out of your zone for decades"

So do I :-) It is something that eminently suitable for putting off.

No more green bananas for you then, Nik! Not too many for me either.

I plan to be alive and doing pretty much what I do now. Reading, gardening, taking care of family, spending time with friends, and being involved in local government.

Rita wrote: "No more green bananas for you then, Nik! Not too many for me either."

Merci -:)

So where would you live if you won the lottery?

I'd live right where I am. All my surviving friends are here and I have a great church. What more could I want? Weeelllll ... perhaps a better political climate. I'm surrounded by liberals :-(, but most of them are nice liberals :-) .

Al "Tank" wrote: "I'm surrounded by liberals :-(, but most of them are nice liberals :-).."

Hope this encirclement is not much trouble -:)

Denise wrote: "Scout wrote: "So where would you live if you won the lottery?"

I really don't know, Scout. I don't think I'd stay in Germany since I just can't figure out the damn language. And I'm not happy with..."

How about Canada?

Assuming we are not yet all doomed, where do u c yourself in 2034?

My oncologist has told me I shall be in long box well before that

Hope for you he's wrong

Ian, when my great grandad was in his 40s, a doctor told him he had 10 years to live, if he looked after himself.

My great grandad ended up living into his 90s, and outlived the doctor.

As I told you many times on the covid thread, don't believe 'the science' (you know that from your own independent studies anyway).

I hope and expect you'll be contributing here for a long time yet 👍

Thanks, Nik and Beau, but I should add it is not my intention to believe him. Sure, I shall take the chemo, but i intend to try and last out a bit longer. I am too obstinate to just lie down and take it. On the other hand, I am fairly old anyway (82 in August) so one has to face some realities.

That’s the spirit. If you were in the US, you’d be perfectly mature to run 🏃‍♂️ for presidency

Sending good thoughts your way, Ian. Obstinacy does have its virtues :-) Stay strong.

Thanks, Scout, for the good thoughts. Sorry, Nik, but that job opportunity has very little appeal.

Meanwhile, the chemo isn't as bad as I feared it might be. Still enjoying Easter, and I hope you all are enjoying it more than I am.

Nik wrote: "Assuming we are not yet all doomed, where do u c yourself in 2034?"

I know 75 isn't old, but it seems more dificult to picture 10 years from now, as I approach 65, than being 55 and imagining 65. I keep updating stuff in the condo, but part of me thinks when she is off to college I should move back to where it's warm and impose on my son and grandson for a while. If I won the lottery, I would definitely be a snowbird at a minimum. Since I didn't win, I will continue looking out the drizzly window. The cold I could adjust to. It's the darkness. I never realized how much of my life was living in daily sunshine probably 345 days a year.

Darkness should give way to light! Hope you'll get where you'd like to, Lizzie

Retired. Cursing about my golf game and what can't the fish just bite. Of course I will be in the public reading room of the New York City Library on Fifth Avenue..

Retirement gives you the time to do what you want when you want. Freedom. I've always wanted freedom and now I have it. I hope you enjoy it too. Ten years from now, I have no idea where I will be. So much depends on my health. I hope I will still have my freedom and my mind.