Watching the sunset...

Imagine getting old.

Your children have been educated and you have let them fly the roost. They have a life of their own and you are the sort who does not want to be dependent on anyone.

You have lived your life the way you want to.

You are not in the mood or the time of your life to become children for your children to dictate how you should continue living your life. You love them and you love the fact that they have a life of their own. You are proud that your children have made something of their own and that you had a part to play in it. You don't expect anything in return. You want to be left alone to grow old, to spend the final days of your life with your partner..

or alone.

You dont want to spend your life baby sitting your grand children in return for a roof over your head.

You would like to do it on your terms.

You like your 2 pegs in the night. You like to read a good book and fall asleep with it on your chest. You like to have a cigarette without feeling as if you have regressed back to your teenage where you had to smoke in the toilet.

You are the sort who feels that the right to chide you or correct you or scold you rests only in the person who has spend a major part of their life with you, through the good times and the bad; the person who has earned that right.

You are old.

My mother is planning on making an old age home .In fact the plans are already laid and work will start in this year.

No rules. No cult. No philosophies .

A community . Self sufficient.

Her plan is simple. Her inspiration is herself. This is how she would like to spend her old age.

This is her plan :

She is going to build 1 bedroom cottages in her property in Kerala. I will upload some pictures of this beautiful place in this post. She plans to sell these cottages to a certain profile of elderly people. They own the place until their death, upon which it goes back to the Trust to be sold again. She plans to have tie ups with Hospitals which will provide for the residents medical assistance. All services will be provided at actual costs. Vegetable will be available from the organic farm in the same property. Milk will be also from the farm. There will be library. A restaurant.

We are still in the process of working out the business plan for the functioning of this community. She wants a certain profile of elderly. She wants the learned, the artists, the writers, the philosophers, the retired....a collection of like minded people. They will live their old age in dignity.


For one thing, this wont be an old age home per se. The residents are free to do what they want as long as it is legal.Which when translated means that if one of the old croon has a young wife, thats cool as long as she is not a minor.

This place, she hopes will give them security, comfort, companionship, friendship and an ability to live out the rest of the years the way they want to.

Your inputs are welcome. She wants all services to be available at very nominal costs for the residents if they ever want to avail it. She plans to have electric cars available if they want to visit the town. She plans to have a pool of screened local house help talents available which the residents can avail of and pay for directly. There will be guest houses available for rent for visitors.Medical services will be available if the residents want to use it.




Idea is of a like minded community of elderly, living out the rest of their years in dignity.









Personally; I would rather she had bought a yacht.