ragdoll-ren:
the problem with adulthood is obviously the neverending Tasks, the spinning of plates inherent in existing in the world - but the problem on top of it all is that Accomplishing Tasks is never weighted as evenly by the outside world as it seems on the inside, as the person for whom the Tasks are overlapping and piling up.
My boss doesn’t care that I cleaned my bathtub, my landlord doesn’t care that I managed to do physical therapy, the DMV doesn’t care that I’m singlehandedly writing my workplace’s annual report. This isn’t even a “everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about” situation - everyone on earth has shit to do, but that fact almost never factors into how society expects people to function