sometimes people quite literally settle for something worse or just 'mediocre', when they could have something good, something better, something they actually w

sometimes people quite literally settle for something worse or just 'mediocre', when they could have something good, something better, something they actually wanted and desired. but nope, people settle for something middling 'for the time being'. and then never get that good, great thing. sometimes that never becomes quite literal. and then, the things that get put off, become irrelevant, truly and on many levels - they're irrelevant in death, and irrelevant to anyone else living who doesn't care for it even a bit. it doesn't have to be a cake, but ffs, stop refusing yourself what's better when that option is literally just there. and sometimes those options are free. (and hey, if 'better' is actually 'not having cake' - maybe it is just that for you. sometimes that death recontextualization makes things seem irrelevant in that way - why do something at all when it literally will not matter, and doesn't matter on any scale of the days really)