Many many people have been asking me .... whats it like to be moving to a seniors resort? And many WHY ??? YOU arent old!!!
Well, Ill be 70 next year. I mean, Ok, we once thought 30,40, 50, then 60 was old....but now... sixties are the new 40's, we tell ourselves. Or others tell us.
Well, I did not have dentures, nor did my knees hurt. Nor did I forget names.
My thought was, 70??? Even thinking of it got me a bit confused
Then, Mira, if you want a different life style you better do it now.
I thought back all the many years I have lived, and asked myself, what do you think you enjoyed most.
Well, I think the time i enjoyed most was living in a hostel,,,,, no having to think of what to eat.... no managing a kitchen, the house, washing etc...After doing that for over 40 years, I really felt that I had had enough!!!
Plus in college there was always someone around to chat with ...if you felt like it.. Having people around in the dining hall, in the coffee shop, in the garden..
I had been looking at the different senior citizen homes around mumbai pune, This is the biggest growing segment it seems, and there are many of them coming around.
Some are in the city. Some areouside. Some are stand alone houses. SOme are in big complexes. Some have few facilites. Some have mainly a single community.
I knew I wanted something cospmopolitan. Good weather. I also wanted lots of facilities. Games. Swimming pool. Films. Library. Good Wifi. Setvices on call. A hospital.
I finally located nulife... nearlonavala. The weather was good. It was big ... that meant the chances of finding and making few friends was higher. It had a lot ...and I mean a lot of facilities. Plus the standards were high. So I booked a place and began my plan of action.
Finding the senior ME.
My plan was simple... i shall travel for 3 months, as I had done when I had dropped out of college in 1967, when I was 19 or so. So I would travel 3 months, and come back ... with new ideas, new experiences ... to start the fouth stage of my life.... a sanyaas.
According to Google, sanyaas means renunciation, ascetisim. Its a stage of life gven the utmost respect in India... and it has something to dow ith giving up all ones roots , ones past, gving up the conventional way of life home family, and being on the eternal quest for truth, for self development.
More time to do what one wants to. For m it meant more time to make mandalas, read books, watch netflix, or nat geo... do anything one wanted.
And it was an amazing coincidence.... I had moved some stuff from mumbai, and went to karjat.... and got my stuff .. and on Nov 11 I could put on my fridge, and with internet on, my nulife has begun. 11.11.... a number that has always been around me ..
Nu life is on a 14 acre plot, and it has about 8 tall buildings of 10 floors each. The amenties which have been promised....a hight level hospital with ICU in the premise, an indoor heated swiming pool, a gym for the elderly, yoga , meditation, and also a mini golf putting range. The outer structure of the amenities are built, and they say that it will be ready by March 2018... they ae working fast, lets hope they finish
pix ..... Me and my cousin taking possession
You have to buy the apartment and have to give 15 years maintainance up front. This includes cleaning the apt, laundry, a nurse on call, an ambulance ...food is an additional amount...approximately rs. 8000 to 10,000 a day ... those details are still not available...
Am amongst the first ten to take possession ... and we are all in the phase of starting a new house anew. And my feeling... this is the last move you make .... i dont think i could go thru this again.
the website is www.gagannulife.com/
SO WHAT DO YOU DO ALL DAY?
AM now getting one phone call a day...friends of friends of friends.... I've heard youve moved to nulife? Whats it like?
For one, there are four times where I meet the other people living here. At breakfast, at lunch, at teatime, and at dinner.
there is a small make shift dining hall.
Always a cheerful greeting.
I go down each morning, and do some stretching...some pranayams.... once othe residents were in the
amphitheatre space and we hasya laughter yoga.
After meals I come to my house, do the things one usually does. I sit on the net, I do some of my crafts like making mandalas...
I mean that what i plan to do.
Most of us are dealing with all the stuff it takes to make a home.
the cleaning ccrew comes every day.
the food is nice... a soup a salad, 2 veg , one dal or curry, rice, chapatti, chaas, and dessert. We are all putting on weight.
COme back after brekker, bath on the net, maybe tv and its lunch time. THen a nap, some more puttering around and its tea
time ... go outdoors, walk...a drink.....and then its dinner time.
I've started my kitchen,,,,and have bread cheese eggs...my eighbour and i had lovely cheese omlettes in the veranduh.
So its up to you how and what you want to do. I have found a computer guy in kamshet, who is going to help me with photoshop one y phots. So Im happy to have this
facitity.
Every other day I go with one of the residents to Kamshet. Or Talegaon.
Yesterday, went to . Parthasarthys Vedanta Academy... and Kaivalyadham in Lonavala, where they have toga and ayurvedic and ayurveda programmes..
and also to a big temple comples...
Pune is about 45 minutes away by car.... there is also a local train from kamshet station which is 5
1.5 km away.... the local takes an hour to reach pune... roughly a train an hour... I went yesterday...
unfortunately they are often late...
Nulife is providing a free shuttle service to Kamshet, Talegaon and to Lonavala. They are on
request now, but there will soon be a schedule ...
Nulife is also providing a car for outstation at Rs. 8 a km....
I went to Pune yesterday for a party.... spent the night.... but actually missed being here so came right back!!!!
THE PEOPLE
THough about only 8 -10 flats are occupied, we meet a lot of people...many come in to supervise the work occuing in their flats.
SOme look amazingly fit. ANd there are thouse who need assistance. One man comes in
his electirc wheelchair...he is paralysed on one side. There are two old women who dont come down to the
dining hall and food is taken up to them .
I am enjoying interacting with these people. They are jovial, and in a sense we have all opted
for this lifestyle.... one where household work is a minimum and where people have time to interact. And it is
interesting to see the variety .
Some places , like Banagalore , are having senior citizen homes in one buiding with the
other ones being sold to non senior citizens.
Both have their pluses and minuses. One day a couple came witht heir kids to settle in
their grandparents. Sure was lots of screaming and fighting and running around and bumping
into us that day!!! Its fine one in a while...glad its not daily.gg
Well, Ill be 70 next year. I mean, Ok, we once thought 30,40, 50, then 60 was old....but now... sixties are the new 40's, we tell ourselves. Or others tell us.
Well, I did not have dentures, nor did my knees hurt. Nor did I forget names.
My thought was, 70??? Even thinking of it got me a bit confused
Then, Mira, if you want a different life style you better do it now.
I thought back all the many years I have lived, and asked myself, what do you think you enjoyed most.
Well, I think the time i enjoyed most was living in a hostel,,,,, no having to think of what to eat.... no managing a kitchen, the house, washing etc...After doing that for over 40 years, I really felt that I had had enough!!!
Plus in college there was always someone around to chat with ...if you felt like it.. Having people around in the dining hall, in the coffee shop, in the garden..
The clostest I could think that would get me all this was a senior citizen homes. No, not old age homes, that my son in law keeps gaffawing about. Its the new avatar.
Some are in the city. Some areouside. Some are stand alone houses. SOme are in big complexes. Some have few facilites. Some have mainly a single community.
I knew I wanted something cospmopolitan. Good weather. I also wanted lots of facilities. Games. Swimming pool. Films. Library. Good Wifi. Setvices on call. A hospital.
I finally located nulife... nearlonavala. The weather was good. It was big ... that meant the chances of finding and making few friends was higher. It had a lot ...and I mean a lot of facilities. Plus the standards were high. So I booked a place and began my plan of action.
Finding the senior ME.
My plan was simple... i shall travel for 3 months, as I had done when I had dropped out of college in 1967, when I was 19 or so. So I would travel 3 months, and come back ... with new ideas, new experiences ... to start the fouth stage of my life.... a sanyaas.
According to Google, sanyaas means renunciation, ascetisim. Its a stage of life gven the utmost respect in India... and it has something to dow ith giving up all ones roots , ones past, gving up the conventional way of life home family, and being on the eternal quest for truth, for self development.
More time to do what one wants to. For m it meant more time to make mandalas, read books, watch netflix, or nat geo... do anything one wanted.
And it was an amazing coincidence.... I had moved some stuff from mumbai, and went to karjat.... and got my stuff .. and on Nov 11 I could put on my fridge, and with internet on, my nulife has begun. 11.11.... a number that has always been around me ..
Nu life is on a 14 acre plot, and it has about 8 tall buildings of 10 floors each. The amenties which have been promised....a hight level hospital with ICU in the premise, an indoor heated swiming pool, a gym for the elderly, yoga , meditation, and also a mini golf putting range. The outer structure of the amenities are built, and they say that it will be ready by March 2018... they ae working fast, lets hope they finish
pix ..... Me and my cousin taking possession
You have to buy the apartment and have to give 15 years maintainance up front. This includes cleaning the apt, laundry, a nurse on call, an ambulance ...food is an additional amount...approximately rs. 8000 to 10,000 a day ... those details are still not available...
Am amongst the first ten to take possession ... and we are all in the phase of starting a new house anew. And my feeling... this is the last move you make .... i dont think i could go thru this again.
the website is www.gagannulife.com/
SO WHAT DO YOU DO ALL DAY?
AM now getting one phone call a day...friends of friends of friends.... I've heard youve moved to nulife? Whats it like?
For one, there are four times where I meet the other people living here. At breakfast, at lunch, at teatime, and at dinner.
there is a small make shift dining hall.
Always a cheerful greeting.
I go down each morning, and do some stretching...some pranayams.... once othe residents were in the
amphitheatre space and we hasya laughter yoga.
After meals I come to my house, do the things one usually does. I sit on the net, I do some of my crafts like making mandalas...
I mean that what i plan to do.
Most of us are dealing with all the stuff it takes to make a home.
the cleaning ccrew comes every day.
the food is nice... a soup a salad, 2 veg , one dal or curry, rice, chapatti, chaas, and dessert. We are all putting on weight.
COme back after brekker, bath on the net, maybe tv and its lunch time. THen a nap, some more puttering around and its tea
time ... go outdoors, walk...a drink.....and then its dinner time.
I've started my kitchen,,,,and have bread cheese eggs...my eighbour and i had lovely cheese omlettes in the veranduh.
So its up to you how and what you want to do. I have found a computer guy in kamshet, who is going to help me with photoshop one y phots. So Im happy to have this
facitity.
Every other day I go with one of the residents to Kamshet. Or Talegaon.
Yesterday, went to . Parthasarthys Vedanta Academy... and Kaivalyadham in Lonavala, where they have toga and ayurvedic and ayurveda programmes..
and also to a big temple comples...
Pune is about 45 minutes away by car.... there is also a local train from kamshet station which is 5
1.5 km away.... the local takes an hour to reach pune... roughly a train an hour... I went yesterday...
unfortunately they are often late...
Nulife is providing a free shuttle service to Kamshet, Talegaon and to Lonavala. They are on
request now, but there will soon be a schedule ...
Nulife is also providing a car for outstation at Rs. 8 a km....
I went to Pune yesterday for a party.... spent the night.... but actually missed being here so came right back!!!!
THE PEOPLE
THough about only 8 -10 flats are occupied, we meet a lot of people...many come in to supervise the work occuing in their flats.
SOme look amazingly fit. ANd there are thouse who need assistance. One man comes in
his electirc wheelchair...he is paralysed on one side. There are two old women who dont come down to the
dining hall and food is taken up to them .
I am enjoying interacting with these people. They are jovial, and in a sense we have all opted
for this lifestyle.... one where household work is a minimum and where people have time to interact. And it is
interesting to see the variety .
Some places , like Banagalore , are having senior citizen homes in one buiding with the
other ones being sold to non senior citizens.
Both have their pluses and minuses. One day a couple came witht heir kids to settle in
their grandparents. Sure was lots of screaming and fighting and running around and bumping
into us that day!!! Its fine one in a while...glad its not daily.gg
