I Hired a Yacht in Goa After Retirement — Here Is Why I Should Have Done It Decades Earlier
I retired fourteen months ago at the age of 63, and one of the specific gifts of retirement that I had not fully anticipated was the quality of attention it makes available — the capacity, finally and without apology, to give complete presence to an experience rather than processing it through the filter of what needs to happen next. When my daughter organized a Goa trip for the family and suggested, with the gentle insistence she has deployed throughout her life to very good effect, that we should Hire Yacht in Goa for the day, I agreed with more willingness than I might have managed at any previous point in my working life. I had nowhere else to be. I had no next thing waiting. I had only the present, and the present turned out to be one of the finest days I have experienced in recent memory. The Family My daughter, her husband, their two children aged eight and eleven, my wife of thirty-eight years, and me. Three generations and five decades of age range, gathered o...