Finding the Right Time and Place

I had been invited to speak at a book launch. During the evening, I asked the new author when he planned to write another book.

“I plan to take three months off, and go to some place quiet, where I am alone, and write!” he said.

“Don’t take three months, take three years off,” said his wife, much to the amusement of all the others listening.

I pondered over the statement and realized that this was something many of us feel; that to do any creative activity, to do a new assignment, to take up a new area of study, we need to get away somewhere.

“Why don’t you put your interesting life story down?” a successful businessman is asked.

“When I retire…” he says, “now there’s no peace and quiet!”

And thus, we all look for that utopian peace and quiet, to find not just the right time to write, but the right time to do anything, and in all probability, that book or that peace and relaxation we look for will remain a dream, and end with a sigh of sadness by a wife or family members as one is lowered into his or her grave.

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