Planning to retire before 40? Dhoni talks about how life changes after retirement...
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00:00Once I FaceTime my daughter and she says, you know,
00:03can you come tomorrow? That is a trouble.
00:05I'm 42, running 43, which means I have to eat nicely.
00:09I can't just eat what I want to eat. You have to train.
00:11Because at the end of the day, nobody cares if you're 42, 45 or 50.
00:15At the same time, your friends keep on complaining.
00:18They'll be like, we gave you a lot of time.
00:20You know, now that you have retired from international cricket,
00:23you have to spend some time with us.
00:24You need to eat what we are eating and all of that.
00:31Before you retired, I'm sure there was a lot of expectations on you
00:36in terms of performing in cricket.
00:37And every day would have been really, really difficult
00:40in terms of dealing with the expectations.
00:42But now that you've retired…
00:43One second. Retired from international cricket only.
00:46Point to be noted.
00:48Hello, hello, hello.
00:49He's a CSK fan.
00:51So retired from international cricket only. Please continue.
00:54Retired from international cricket.
00:56Has life become easier in terms of the expectations and the pressure?
01:00Has life become easier in general?
01:02Well, you know, frankly, if you ask me,
01:05if you're a celebrity in India, if people look up to you,
01:08there's always a certain amount of responsibility,
01:11roles that you're supposed to fulfill.
01:13And that expectation is always there.
01:15Also, I'm only playing IPL,
01:17which means I'm actively playing cricket for two months in a year.
01:21In fact, it's slightly more difficult
01:23because I'm not playing throughout the year.
01:25So now my role and responsibility for CSK or towards cricket,
01:29I have to keep myself fit.
01:30So I have to plan the whole year where, you know,
01:33what I need to do, when I need to do.
01:35I'm 42, running 43, which means I have to eat nicely.
01:39I can't just eat what I want to eat.
01:41You have to train because at the end of the day,
01:43nobody cares if you're 42, 45 or 50.
01:46If you're competing with people at the top level,
01:49you have to be at the same benchmark.
01:51You know what they are setting.
01:52They may be 20, they may be 15, they may be 17.
01:54So if you're competing with them, you know, you have to be like them.
01:58So there's no excuses for that.
02:00So that's one of the reasons I find it slightly more difficult.
02:03You know, you have to be very motivated.
02:05At the same time, your friends keep on complaining.
02:08They'll be like, we gave you a lot of time.
02:10You know, now that you have retired from international cricket,
02:13you have to spend some time with us.
02:14You need to eat what we are eating and all of that.
02:17So you have to balance it out.
02:18So that expectation level, that pressure is still there.
02:21So most of us, when we look at a celebrity,
02:24we feel like, okay, their life is perfect.
02:26Everything is going well, happy life.
02:28So I want to ask you, is it, I mean,
02:31is there anything that's like bothering you in life?
02:33Any problems that you're facing?
02:35Like is life really perfect?
02:36I feel problems are the real essence of life.
02:39Imagine if you have a life where everything is so smooth
02:42that once you get up in the morning,
02:44you don't really have anything to look up to.
02:46Because everything is so smooth, you know, whether it's your business,
02:48whether it's something or the other.
02:50So for me, you know, when I was like COVID times and all,
02:53I had a lot of times.
02:54My worry was, you know, I have to make that bike.
02:57So once I've opened my bike and I don't know much about it,
03:00then I'm like, you know, what, what do I need to do?
03:02For me, that is trouble.
03:03You know, for me, once I FaceTime my daughter and she says,
03:07you know, can you come tomorrow?
03:09That is a trouble.
03:10You know, when my father, some five, seven years back,
03:14you know, he was like, you have played enough cricket.
03:17You leave it now.
03:18There are others who will play.
03:19So now, you know, there are different things that's problem for you.
03:24You know, it's just that problems are important part of life.
03:28Because if they don't keep testing us, you know, we won't really improve.
03:32For me, every day is important.
03:33I try to be the best version of myself.
03:36And that's what keeps me going.
03:38You know, and that was as something that has kept me going for a very long time.
03:42And I don't think I'll change that perspective because cricket will end.
03:46Whether next year becomes my last year or the year after that.
03:49But again, it will be a part of my life, you know, that will have a comma or a full stop.
03:55But the life continues.