It began simply enough. The Mayor looked out his window in France: one last warm day before autumn tucked itself in. Ritesh, thousands of kilometres away in Bangalore, laughed—it had been raining for weeks, a season that didn’t know when to stop.
But soon, the weather gave way to bigger skies. Dreams. Long-term ones. Not just the “what’s for dinner tomorrow” kind, but the kind that shape decades. Where will you live? How do you retire without strings attached? What does freedom actually look like?
Ritesh, drawing on his rural upbringing, dropped the kind of truth that stops a café mid-sip: “City life tricks us into chasing luxuries. But when you’ve seen the work behind every grain of rice, you value necessity differently.” His philosophy? Save, stay self-sufficient, cut loose from the rat race, and avoid becoming dependent—on a place, a paycheck, or a possession too big to carry.
The Mayor nodded. Because sometimes the biggest dream isn’t a mansion or a promotion. It’s independence. The kind where you can walk away from consumerism’s treadmill, and still know you’ve built something solid beneath your feet.
👉 Missed the conversation? Don’t. This wasn’t just small talk about the weather. It was a roadmap to a life less dependent, more deliberate.
🎧 Listen in before the next storm passes you by.