Man of semi-leisure

That's my new profession.

And I'm loving it.

I'm no longer chasing after rainbows or thirsting for power.

Instead, I guard my free time with my life and resist doing anything not worth doing.

I am still gainfully employed, albeit I dictate my terms of employment. I still get a decent amount of bread and butter. But I am no longer interested in cheap picnic ham in disgusting quantities. I prefer high class applewood smoked leg of ham.

In short, quality - and not quantity - has become the pursuit du jour.

I have time to do what I like to do and I have time to rest. To take a walk down a path and smell the flowers along the way.

I consider myself retired at this moment and what I am doing is really post-retirement stuff. Of course, I do not rule out beginning a second career, something on a higher plateau of human existence.

Power is addictive. But clinging on to power is like clutching at moonbeams. You cannot but be dictated to if you want to stay on your high perch.

Freedom and life, however, are very different but yet equally powerful things. Once you get them, you would never want to cede them. And they are yours to keep because you know how you can work things around to keep them.