If it's too hard to shower
today, grab the baby wipes.
It may not be the normal way to do it,
but you deserve to be clean.
If it's too hard to cook dinner,
get paper plates, heat up something frozen.
You’ll go back to cooking and
washing another day,
but the day is not today.
And in the meantime, you deserve to eat.
If you're too depressed to do your dishes,
get a two-gallon Ziploc bag
and keep it in your bedroom.
Because if you put a dirty plate into a
two-gallon Ziploc bag and seal it,
it will keep the bugs away.
Because you deserve a sanitary environment
even if you can't get out of bed.
I could share with you hundreds
of other genius solutions
that people have come up with
once they embraced the idea
that care tasks are morally neutral.
In my experience, people will exhibit
mind-blowing creativity
when they are only taught how to speak
compassionately to themselves.