It feels like a very beginning of the 2000 position. The generation that was first allowed to divorce and blow up everything. And it's very good that we got this liberty, much better for everyone involved than the previous status quo. But it's still a failed experiment with a lot of collateral damage and hurt people.
The job of our generation is to find how to build our life in a more stable way, this time with kindness to avoid falling back to the conservative and violent approaches of the past.
So the selfish advice feels really outdated and out of place.
My parents are still healthy and self sufficient at 80 and 82. If they weren’t, I would definitely take care of them as the only child.