The Other Half of Life

Life of a boy who grew up in a situation that provided barely enough of the basic necessities of life. With a strongly determined father, caring mother, and dependable siblings he was able to carve out a life that was fashioned from the dreams he carried in his childhood. In his latter life, he found himself in a situation that allowed him to go back to his youthful dreams. At 62, while still strong and healthy, and with the realization that he was no longer tied to any form of obligation towards the world or to anyone else, he retired. With a determination recaptured from his youth he now wants to probe into the further reaches of his being to see just how far he can go. This latter part of life that he could not have foreseen is what he refers to as The Other Half of Life. It is to be different from the first half where it had been simply going through the functions of the everydayness of life. He now finds himself in a situation that has no constraints and no limitations. This awareness of absolute freedom to design his life in whatever way he chooses, now engulfs his being and propels him to become that for which he was made to be. It had all been laid out in the dreams of his childhood.