the joys of living a life with some leisure time are tremendous. I was not used to a life that gave any time for idle time neither any time for thinking or reflecting. Now that I have a different life style I enjoy the time I have in reading books, discussing topics with my friends and reflecting. what I discuss with my friends range from the topics like politics to strategy and in particular a strategic approach to thinking about the future of my country.

We also discuss piano and sometimes music of other kind like opera. Although I will discuss these topics later but i will try and post the links of some beautiful pieces of music by Mozart and Beethoven. Previously I was as far from Piano and Opera as anybody could be but one of my friends introduced me to it and now I feel that I am totally given to this form of music.

Back to the joys of idle time and reflection. In the past few months I have read more books than I read in a few years immediately preceding. The joy of knowing more and understanding a few things from a different perspective is immense. It is not only a lot of pleasure related to discovery but it is rewarding in the sense that you can apply a lot of what you learn.

The topics that have interested me in these few months are Sufism and I have read and still reading Rumi. It is a treat to read his Masnevi. On this I will write later in some other post.

Other topics are new ways of thinking and taking perspective as you will find if you have read Malcom Gladwell or Nicholas Naseem Talib. On this also later in some other post.