Symmetry

I was happy to look at my list of things to do, and see that there was nothing pressing left to do. While our grocery delivery got cancelled, I’ll have to go pick it up later. But other than that my calendar for today is pretty clear. I just finished filling my wife’s pill caddies, so they are done for the week. Like a puppy  that’s learned how to sit, I rewarded myself with two vitamin gummies as a treat. There’s nothing better than the machine that has become my life. Even in my forced retirement there’s a certain symmetry in the planning of time and boredom of nothing.
 
But who am I kidding, retirement is nothing more than a joke enjoyed by very few in their 80’s and 90’s. And that’s only because they’re considered too damn old to be employable and therefore considered disposable. The sad truth in nature is there is no retirement; only maturity, decline, and death. But as humans we like to consider ourselves above that. Giving our elders places of honor and maybe even respect. The young are tasked with taking care of the old and in turn the old do things like housesit and feed their dogs while the kids are on vacation.
 
Life’s all about a certain amount of balance, of give and take. So we all do our best to even things out. I remember as a kid I got to use my grandparents car, my payment for it, was to run their errands and take them to their appointments. It was a fair arrangement that lasted a number of years between high school and adulthood. In fact later the car got passed along to an uncle who needed a car. Life is meant, at least for me, to be this way. Where the young respect the old and the old admire the young, in a closed loop of time. So all I got to say is don’t abandon your tribe, they’re all you really got.
 
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