Future you has to live with every choice you make today. Try being a decent roommate.

The person who inherits today is you, with the same body, the same records and the same consequences. Treating that person as a stranger makes it easy to leave them a mess, because the cost lands somewhere you are not standing yet. Thinking of them as someone you share a place with changes the arithmetic.

Before leaving something undone, ask whether you would do it for a friend arriving tomorrow morning. Wash the thing, send the email, set out the clothes. It takes five minutes now and it spares a person you are about to become.