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Once you are settled in one of the retirement villages in South Africa, such as Summervale, you can begin to dream about all the things you have always wanted to do, but could never find the time for in your packed schedule.

Now is the time to give your imagination free reign. The retirement villages in South Africa offer lots of travel potential, but are also situated in settings ideal for some peaceful contemplation…

1. Read the morning paper slowly, sipping it like coffee
2. Allow the sun to touch your skin
3. Try pinpointing the turn of the seasons
4. Keep a diary noting the flow of life and rate your own effort
5. Phone your friends and visit them
6. Probe the deeper waters of their souls
7. Make new friends that leave you energized after engagements
8. Switch of the TV and switch on your imagination
9. Attend sport events, for the game and to watch spectators
10. Take your spouse and friends to the movies
11. Take your spouse and friends to the theatre
12. Make a list of books that must be read and reread
13. Do a course on photography
14. Go to art classes
15. Study for a degree in your field of interest
16. Write a book
17. Go on a wine-tasting course. The retirement villages in Cape Town are ideally situated for this
18. Go on a wine-making course
19. Make your own wine in your garage
20. Visit Franschoek or Knysna and stay over for a few days
21. Visit Prague, Istanbul, Venice and perhaps Paris too
22. Take a brisk walk every day
23. Become involved in activities inspired by kindness
24. Organize a weekly game of chess, poker or bridge
25. Swim in the ocean
26. Retirement villages in South Africa offer plenty of opportunities to taste the sea
27. Close your eyes to the stroking of the sea breeze
28. Visit the Kruger National Park and the Victoria Falls
29. Take your spouse or partner to watch the sunrise
30. Take your dog for a last swim before sunset
31. Join a stretching class
32. Buy yourself a very expensive bottle of wine, whiskey or a raincoat
33. Phone your grandchildren regularly
34. Listen to their stories and ask them questions
35. Listen carefully when they phone you
36. Stretch your mind, stretch theirs
37. Start a post retirement career
38. Ask your spouse to become your business partner
39. Engage in a meaningful hobby
40. Make a documentary for TV
41. Play golf until you succeed in getting a hole in one
42. Keep a little something for high blood pressure in both golfing pockets
43. Enter your home mimicking Clint Eastwood’s or Madonna’s walk, or Charlie Chaplin’s
44. Ignore your spouse’s look of admiration
45. Learn to interpret his/her laughter correctly or translate it to your liking
46. Become sensitive to the suffering of disadvantaged and abused people and open your hand and heart
47. Take a cake or doughnuts once a month to the police station or a children’s home
48. Sponsor a bright child at school or college
49. Make a list of classic movies to be watched again
50. Order them and start interchanging them with like-minded people
51. Find the strings of your soul
52. Tie them up in a synchronized bundle
53. Turn them to the world, let them loose and follow them
54. Park yourself in a coffee shop and watch the world go by
55. Eat a regular slice of chocolate cake or milk tart
56. Dress to the whisper of your imagination
57. Carry your imagination’s style in pride
58. Become lean and a mean assassin of excess fat
59. Join a book club with like minded people
60. Become an authority on the ways of whales and dolphins
61. Learn to apply humour when anger is expected
62. Don’t try humour on a politician or a boxer
63. Or a teenager
64. Or on your spouse after the Springboks have lost
65. Listen regularly to a variety of music
66. See whether the old timer can still rock
67. Acquire a taste for Beethoven, Mozart and Gogol Bordello
68. Don’t allow people to compare your age with the pyramids
69. If they do try, put on more lipstick or challenge them to arm wrestling
70. Remember to exercise with dumbbells in anticipation of a glorious moment
71. Buy yourself a very classy perfume or after shave
72. Put it on before you go to the library or ladies bar
73. Always remember that sensuality does not carry a sell by date
74. Write letters to newspapers, politicians and greedy businessmen
75. Fight the terrorists of societal values with reason and humane ethics
76. Read history and dissect its unfolding up to the present day
77. Become a guru on the lives of the world’s finest souls
78. Spend slow time in your garden or with your pot plants
79. Spend slow time with your spouse or partner
80. Surprise your spouse or partner with special gestures of love
81. Make your bed every morning and brush your shoes and teeth
82. Make a list of places still to be visited and tick them off when visited
83. Cherish time, be sensitive to days, hours and stroke every allotted minute
84. Don’t become a victim of your comfort zone, be a frontier fighter of the spirit
85. Make a study of indigenous trees and put it to book
86. Become fitter than you were five years ago
87. Swim in all the oceans of the world
88. Prepare gourmet food, drink good wine and repeat often
89. Take your spouse for the odd meal and ice cream at MacDonalds
90. Don’t repeat your mother or father’s stagnated rituals
91. Do repeat their admirable deeds and add value to them in their honour
92. Study your grandchildren’s development and coach them subtly
93. Carry the weight on your children’s shoulders with them, but don’t lend them money
94. Don’t vote for glib politicians or buy unethical companies’ shares
95. Don’t allow cruel people to have their days at other’s expense
96. Apply your graduation from an apprenticeship of life to the good of all still fighting their journey
97. Touch the sky and taste the rain
98. Smell the roses and listen to song of the ocean
99. Feel the warmth and curves of your spouse’s or partner’s hand
100. Walk around in harmony with the Soul of the Universe
101. Plan your personal list of a 101 things to do from your retirement village in South Africa

Your time in one of the retirement villages of South Africa can become a period of self-discovery and new interests. All that is required is an open mind and heart.

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