Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Blog

I didn’t have a clever quip this year, but I did have a great day.

When I was twenty, the dotcom boom was in full blast. Newspapers regularly carried reports of newly minted millionaires. Everyone wanted to be in the queue.

“So, when are you going to be a millionaire?”

And I strained to see as far ahead as I could. “Twenty six?” Twenty six seemed like a good age to be a millionaire.

Now I’m there and worth a few million paise.

When I was nineteen, twenty five was old. I used to think “Twenty five? That’s so far away, I’ll probably be retired by then.”

Now I’m there and barely started.