Routines

One reason that I struggle with retirement vs continuing to work .....

In the workday there are routines for me. I take my blood pressure medication before I go out the door, I drink water with regularity, I take a bite of food before 10am. There are other things. It's all part of my routine.

With vacation days or other days off, those things get overlooked or forgotten. It will be two o'clock in the afternoon and I'll suddenly realize that I haven't popped my pills or taken a sip of water yet.

There's no urgency for personnel care or maintenance.

I wonder sometimes why people often seem to pass away not long after they retire from work? 

Does it have something to do with the abrupt loss of structure and routines in their daily life?

Seems like it should be an easy fix. In reality, maybe not.

I have a thing for downtown street clocks. Not those with digital readouts (those are for the suburbs) but clocks with faces and hands and a hint of history.