That there will always be work to be done. Whether you define it as working on yourself, on your relationships, fixing up the house, the car, washing the dishe

That there will always be work to be done. Whether you define it as working on yourself, on your relationships, fixing up the house, the car, washing the dishes. I guess I sort of lived as if there would be some kind of 'over the rainbow' someday when I could retire and just chill, but this year when watching 'Stutz' on Netflix, where he states that there are three inescapable things in life: "pain, uncertainty, and constant work," the work part really sunk in for me. I've been watching my mother try to create a kind of peaceful cocoon with her new house and her manicured lawns and list of friends curated down to only the ones which don't ever challenge her etc, only to find that even nearing her eighties she constantly has surprises and challenges intruding on the peace she is trying to cultivate. The tldr; of it is that I've been looking at work the wrong way, i.e. I've been trying to avoid it or push it away, but I feel I should embrace it. Some recurring tasks can even be sort of comforting in that it creates a routine.