Life is like a recipe blog. Nobody cares about the fluff you add to embellish reality. Actually, readers care, but probably in a negative way.

Okay, fine, they find patter annoying.

No force in the known universe could ever hold back sharp-tongued critics. Whether the issue is too much sugar, not enough self-care, the lack of salt, or too much clutter, it's virtually impossible to escape the judgmental stare of society.

So, victims of that unspoken pressure try and "have it all", through the likes of productivity strategies, fitness regimes, or inspirational mantras, all well disguised glitter-covered molds in the end.

Unless the you unlock the secrets of quantum physics or something, nobody can conjure Schrodinger's casserole, with enough sugar, yet not too much, and just a pinch of glitter-coated self-care, shifting to accomodate haters.

The trick is to thin it down, pick a hill to die on, and boil the grass on that hill down to a digestible residue. Historically, the people who have made the most difference were the ones who chose a fight to care about and built a criticism-raincoat out of controversy.

You can go ahead, if you're still reading, and take my advice with a grain of salt, or maybe two or three, depending on the dish you want to make. Just don't tell your life story to strangers on the internet, okay?