In recent days to say that I have been lazy is an understatement, actually since I made my decision to retire early I have been on a retirement mode and am already winding down. I am no longer really sending news stories like I used to do say, ten or eleven years ago. I am no longer seeing the need to go online in search of opportunities as I used to. Actually I have gone back to a simple life, the life before the hustle took control of me.Recently I have been assuring my boys that all I need is R4 million and I would retire a happy man. I will cease all the paperchase and leave others to take it further. I would simply buy that crib by the hill, that ultra-safe car, that nice swimming pool and then invest R2 million. Then I will spend the rest of my life pursuing my true love - which is art. I will spend hours on end perfecting my drawings, poetry, guitar playing and becoming a hortoculturalist. I look at Khaphela in Generations and think, wow! sonofabitch is having a good time.
My plan is to retire early, when I hit forty I want to be out of here. I simply have no ambition to work beyond forty. And when I was enticed with an offer to go into business with some dude recently I felt I was being pulled back, I have been in that situation where the rand is my shephered and I managed to make quite a tidy income and good investments and am now on a countdown to quit.
One of my media buddies told me that he had a rumour that I wanted to start a newspaper and all I could tell him was that such a thought never crossed my mind. I harbour no such ambitions, I have no time to run a newsroom. I told him that I am contemplating retiring soon and not running empires. I have run my race and there's nothing new left for me in this race.
Moral of the post; work hard in your early years to retire early. I have a feeling I'm gonna be bored chilling all alone at Clifton sipping cappuccino. Hola if you feel me!
