A bubbling lavender bath, laying naked on the forest floor.

Sex-positive pornography and solitary masturbation rituals.

Buying something just for yourself for once.

Fake sexually lashes by family and unwilling to help hire criminals.

Word

That's self-care by Laura Dandy and the New Curm Mugins, and it's available on Paramount

Multiplex Records.

A great song, and I'm happy for Laura Dandy's success, and I understand why people are currently

bashing self-care.

We all know that the self-care movement is just a rebranding of selfishness, something

clearly innovative in the PR department of a lotion company by a team of demons trying

to trick people into making the primordial mistake of seeking happiness through gratifying

the senses via an overpriced eucalyptus bath bomb.

But on all the self-care bashing, something that's being left out is the fundamental duty

of every human being to immediately start loving themselves.

You just have to figure it out.

It's literally the most important thing you can do in your human incarnation, and the

longer you put it off, the more your life is going to suck.

Your truth is that the longer you wait to stand in front of the mirror and engage in the

cheesy activity of looking yourself in the eye and saying, I love you so much.

Thanks for keeping me alive.

Thanks for effortlessly keeping my heart pumping blood, and thanks for digesting my food,

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