Self-Care

I want to say something about self-care. I don’t do self-care. 

I don’t do one random healthy or indulgent thing for myself while living the rest of my life at my limits. I don’t treat myself to a bath or a face mask to compensate for a life structured around depletion. I am not a machine to be optimized, not a resource to be mined. When I live as a human, I don’t need to schedule humanity.

Because I am human too. And I live a regular human life.

A regular human life that takes up all of my time. A regular human life filled with taking care of myself and connecting with my community. A regular human life that is me being me. A regular human life that is me doing me.

Today’s society does not cooperate with us on this. In fact, today’s society actively works against our human nature and human needs. Not all of us have the option or agency to live our human selves. To care for our full human lives.

But it must, at least, be stated.

I have no need for self-care when I remember that I am human and I live a regular human life.