Nocturnal Lifestyle

Since I do most of the important things at night, including writing and publishing,  some family members are concerned about my unconventional and possibly abnormal lifestyle.  However,  my amazing child enlightened me about the nocturnal cavemen who safeguarded their caves. So, although it may not be the norm, it is perfectly natural for certain individuals, like me.

I am a pretty good reader, so I know when I see a great book.  Therefore,  I also have to grade my writing skills to about 4th-grade level kids (maybe insulting some of them by saying this), especially when it comes to jokes.  But, I have something they do not have.  I lived a few more decades than they have.  So, I have slightly a better idea of what life is like.

For example, that death is a gift of God to humanity.  When Rome was on fire, thanks to Nero, there had to be someone saying, while roasting in the fire, Thank God, that dude is also going to die someday.  While watching the series of James Bond movies for the 100th time,  I asked my little child, at the time less than 3 years old, what happened in the movie.  She said, "They all die."  She had the correct answer!

But, we live longer now.  Soon, the 85-year-old child will be taking care of the 105-year-old mother.   Senior care issue is a big elephant in the room.  No one wants to look at it.   Perhaps we will have an AI caregiver that is sophisticated enough to be a relatively good caregiver, except for giving you warmth and joy and the anger and frustration, all the humankind stuff.  I wonder if we should start saving for AI caregivers just like we try to save for our retirement.  Retirement age was like 55 when we lived until 80 or so, I think.  So, what would be our retirement age if we lived to 100 or more?

Looks like this will keep you awake for a while. I am on the same boat, but I am going to sleep.

BTW  We have a book called Dementia Caregiving, authored by Malcolm Oppenheimer, a long and difficult name to pronounce for me, but I had the professional writer come up with one, and he did this!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNP671LS

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