My visionIt is 2015. Where am I?I’m 52 and going by where I’ve been – with every year that has gone by, it’s a better place to be than before!My kids are no longer at home – out making their way in the world as useful, responsible and good citizens.  The company I’ve helped to found and build has grown – we’ve succeeded in reaching out to the audience we wanted to reach – the poorer sections – urban and rural – which do not have access to the skills that the world demands of them. India is a better place to live in.I’m happy with the work I’ve done in the two areas of life which matter most to me – my family and my larger Vivitsu family. My health is good – yoga and walking have paid off; other niggling problems are under control.It’s decision time also – do I continue with the work that I’m doing and build it further – in a very operational sense or do I move on – leaving the way clear for younger stewardship? I think the latter. In a business sense, that would be the right thing to do – younger, more-juiced-up-with-creativity-for Vivitsu people should take over!In a personal sense too, I think it is good to give birth to an idea, nurture it and then let it fly – I love that! To stay attached too much would also mean kind of rooting yourself down to your ego again – “this is my baby, why should I let it go?” kind of thinking.Also, I will move on because other things beckon too.A place in the hills, like this one, maybe. Time for quiet and reflection and recharge before the next stage in life; I want to grow old with grace and for that you need – not frenetic activity but quiet spaces too. No, not quite retirement and the waiting to die I see with many retired people – that is NOT grace! Rather - a different kind of work. Yes, I’d like to have something to do with plants and trees; maybe grow them, maybe share the joys of nature with kids and through this, let them discover the fact that choices for this kind of life can be made at many points!I want work that means something for that stage of life. What exactly this work will be I do not know but I trust it will reveal itself – maybe something to do with food and wine! JThe metaphor I have in mind is a banyan tree – it grows and nourishes until the prop roots that it puts down become so strong that even when the main trunk dies, the tree lives on and flourishes!As I sit with my feet dangling in these lovely, clear and cold waters, it strikes me very strongly that life has meaning so comparable to the river. The river has the most to give at it’s estuary – just before it meets the ocean, it creates the most wonderfully fertile deltas…Not at it’s birth as a happy and babbling brook, not as it courses down the mountains in it’s greatest beauty and vitality, more so when it winds it’s way sedately through the plains – the middle ages of its life – nurturing all who live by its banks, but at the very end, before it loses itself in the ocean.. when in its last stages , it gives up all that it has gathered along the way to create a delta that sustains and nourishes. That I hope, is where my life takes me too..Knowing the people I work with, I think their journeys will be rich and rewarding and to know that is good too…Anu