If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.
It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.