Care is not glamorous because deterioration rarely schedules a ceremony either.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Deterioration does not arrive with any drama. It works steadily, without announcement, and the response to it is correspondingly undramatic: routine, quiet, repetitive. Expecting maintenance to feel meaningful is a category error, since it is the counterpart to a process that also has no ceremony.

Stop waiting for care to feel significant. Do it on the same unremarkable schedule as the wearing it opposes. The lack of drama on both sides is the point.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which quiet upkeep of yours will never get applause?

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