Make your lives extraordinary

Right now back home in Cayman for the first time in eighteen months. Evenings and this weekend I’m spending lots of time with my three sons, during the days (when they are at work), I’m meeting up with lots of people I haven’t seen for a long time, catching up on their news and where they are now.

When you live on a small island you also bump into so many people wherever you go and catch up with them too, so you always seem to know all the news, both business and personal. However, living away from Cayman and not having visited for eighteen months, while I remain very connected to business here remotely, I’d lost touch with a lot of people’s personal news.

One thing I am sitting with is how many people, some even around my age (55), have either died or are really ill.

I’ve also noticed (as Cayman has many people who retire relatively young and pretty wealthy) how many people are now retired here and passing their days mostly at leisure. I wonder at them simply passing the days and where they find meaning and purpose now they are financially comfortable. Some may be happy, though others may have lost much of their sense of identity from ending their professional role and be wandering through life marking time. Who knows (though I am curious and do ask and listen with some who I know).