zhihau said:
The following suggestions are possible pastimes:
1) Go up the mountains like what the Beatles once did. Maybe you might find inspiration for ethereal poetry.
2) Pick a Least Developed Country like Ethopia or Kampuchea and follow the footsteps of Kit Chan, perhaps teaching children English?
3) Sell your house and go on a round the world tour on an ocean liner. The alternative to this is to buy a yacht and sail the seven seas. This will be tougher on you than the first option but maybe you can still keep your house.
4) Get a mountain bike (make sure one that can have its seat removed at will) and go cross-country biking
5) Be a monk for a few months in a Thai buddhist temple. Many Thais do their NS this way.
6) On a more serious note, pick a university town in the States, say Cambridge, Massachusetts, go through the modules you would wish to attend. If you are not interested in the certifications, you can move from lecture to lecture, university to university (in the example above, Harvard and MIT and not so far away Preston) without having to pay a single cent and do not need to do well for SATs.
Although the above are suggestions meant for you but Pritam could well have done the same thing during that two-year gap.