At the potluck, the store-bought cookies still get eaten. Bring what you’ve got.

Contribution is measured by turning up with something, not by how impressive the something is. Everybody eats the plain offering and nobody remembers who brought what, because the point of the table was the gathering rather than a comparison of effort. Waiting until you can bring something good enough means bringing nothing. Available beats excellent more often than people expect.

Go to the thing you have been skipping because you had nothing worth bringing. Take whatever is actually within reach: the cheap snack, the half hour, the plain help. Say yes to being there and let your contribution be ordinary.