Can't Care, Won't Care

You might think that people don't care.

Don't care about you.

It's not that, of course. The concept is just bigger than that. Bigger than you.

Caring isn't personal. It should be. But it frequently isn't.

The truth is people can't always care.

Care spaces are limited. You may have been trumped or relegated.

Or they don't care.

Ambivalence. Other priorities. Out of space. Full. Up.

You'll beat yourself up for your sorry lot anyway so go right ahead and get it out of the way. See what it changes.

It's not that people don't care - it's just that people aren't caring. 

Yet. 

You can make them of course...get close and it will follow. You'll boost your mantlepiece on your birthday. 

But what is the point of that? This is a force that should not be forced. Care is an offer not an obligation.

Care for what you will.

Care for who you will. Who you can. When you can.

Or don't.

And care for yourself first. It's what every life support course teaches above all. You are useless otherwise.

Offering care is not the same as bringing dependence.

But only take Route One at times when that is as far as your resources reach and only for the time that is so. 

Because unless you are homeless, limbless, destitute, addicted, you have more to offer. 

Care when other people can't. Or won't. Many outgrow it as their selfishness matures into who they will be in later life. Men in particular.

Take it outside. Take it for a stroll. 

Stretch.

Practice the skills you've let atrophy. In new ways unique to you.

And not because you have to.

Just because you give a damn.