A simple dinner can be enough

Balance · Little Light original

You open the fridge after a long day and begin negotiating with an imaginary standard. A proper meal would be more balanced, more beautiful, more worthy of the ingredients you bought with good intentions. Even feeding yourself has become another place where you might fall short. Tonight, something simple can count. Toast at the table, yesterday's soup, or an easy dish you know without consulting a screen. There is no audience to persuade and no need to turn an ordinary evening into a demonstration of how well you are managing life. Make what is practical, sit down, and give yourself enough time to eat it. Care can be plain without being careless. It can meet the day you actually had instead of the day you expected to have. You are allowed to be a person having dinner, not a person completing one more assessment. Some evenings are held together by small, sufficient kindnesses.

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