"At 53 years old, I'm staring down a laundry list of skills I have never mastered. Like doing laundry. It is my personal belief that stain removers are a tax on hope. They have never performed for me and so I refuse to believe in their efficacy. I have never learned to properly garden or do my eye makeup, to plan out my meals on a Sunday or to find gas at the cheapest station in town before the price changes."
"The idea for this took root - pun intended - when a friend of mine, who was out for a run by my house one day, saw me drinking my coffee, stooped over some sort of brownish-green plant while I was "gardening." He came back two hours later with a trunk full of fresh soil and mulch and plants. "I couldn't handle you just sitting there looking confused," he told me. "Why don't you let me do it?""
A 53-year-old single parent lacks many domestic skills and struggles with tasks such as changing lightbulbs, recycling, composting, laundry, gardening, and meal planning. The person describes standing on a coffee table, uncomfortable and untrained, while children watch and feeling uncertain about composting and stain removers. A friend intervenes during a gardening attempt, bringing soil, mulch, and plants, and offers to take over. The person decides to accept incompetence, deliberately delegate chores to others, and use that self-awareness to reduce stress and rely on available help.
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