The flowers you grow for yourself do not need to last long enough for a visitor.

Much of what we make privately gets judged by whether anyone else will see it. A short-lived bloom, a meal for one, a room arranged the way you like it: these get quietly downgraded because no audience arrives to confirm them. But the pleasure was already had. Nothing is wasted by ending before it can be shown.

Do one thing this week purely for your own eyes and let it be temporary. Cut the flowers even though they will drop by Friday, and cook the good dinner on a Tuesday alone. Notice the small pull to save it for company, and go ahead anyway.