I like your ‘falling into retirement’ process, Roger. And caring for your parents is probably a good ‘transitionary’ activity.

It seems that a good percentage of people ‘bounce’ off of retirement hard: they just can’t find contentment without their 9-5 job. But I think easing into retirement gives the mind an opportunity to adjust. And it probably helps that I have an anxiety-prone mind that enjoys being in a peaceful state- my wife calls it ‘being lazy’.

Irene and I don’t have children, thus no grandchildren, so the “grandparents baby sitting service” hasn’t reached us. But there does seem to be a desire amongst some elements to find things for retired folks to do. I may need to trigger the ‘conspicuously busy’ cloaking shield from time to time 😉