Saturday, 8 May 2010

end-game

The plan for the end-game is generally to relax and enjoy. To conduct all of my favourite activities, I shall be living beside the sea, rurally, with internet connection, with access to public transport to a major polity -- the best of all worlds. To swimming, tango, tai chi, GO, meditation, XQ, writing, jaxing, tron, making love, I shall continue selling my books, tutoring, learning_upgrades and adding music composition, doubling, gardening, reading.

I'd like to spend a reasonable amount of my time engaging nature. Swimming, especially along a coast with interesting underwater architecture. Beaches are dull, but rock formations are interesting. I may indulge myself with a little cliff-running, and climbing up rocks that face the sea. I'd like to pick up tai chi practice again, preferably conducted outdoors.

Virtually, I'd like to be reading more especially around the topic of XQ. While I don't know what will happen after Tron Legacy comes out, I think I'd still like to play tron. If the mood takes me, I might explore writing the psy-fi I have been presearching. I'd like to continue jaxing, doubling, and may even invest in some major time composing music.

Along a more work-orientated vein, I'd like to garden, preferably with trees, tending fruit trees, slowing down to match their seasonal pace. I might do a little tutoring, maths and english and anything else, ala the demands of learning up_grades, though this may relax as I get older, content myself with just helping someone get from A to B. Life will get easier in either of two ways, both of them predicated on people knowing the B they are aiming to get to. First, their idea of B is a simple thing, something I can provide easily; second, their they don't really know what B is since it is something which I have offered in tango or XQ maths or whatever. The second case is more demanding for them, but not for me, since gone are the days where I am trying to push for them. Then there's selling my books.

I'd like to continue tango, though in a more relaxed way, more socially. The chances of finding other tango dancers in the middle of nowhere is slim, so I may have to find a woman, play, and then gradually introduce it to the community if anyone is interested. Or just await the times I return to a big city.

There are a couple of practices which are quite demanding requiring a certain quality of partner. Exploring the martial aspect of tai chi with someone willing to follow a rather rigourous methodology. Tango, perhaps more deeply, more subtly. Playing GO with someone who is better than me. Tron players willing to form a strong team, the tronic monkeys. If another writer appears, I'd be happy to explore the psy-fi together, or even co-author some multiple narrative text. Perhaps a meditation partner would spur me to deeper regions of contemplation.

And should anyone turn up and show an interest in 2020worldpeace related ideas and practice, I'd simply like to reflect 2020 back to them and their current efforts.