"This is the sort of thing I would normally leave for someone else to take care of. As time passed something horrifying occurred to me. This wasn’t going to happen." This is the actual definition of horror. Thank you for putting it so plainly.
I know it is an effort to organise/think about, and I am sure some annoying person in your life has already said this, but I am also an annoying person and I'm going to say it too: that is some very good future compost you have right there - hence all the worms etc. If you have a gardening neighbour they might actually like to have it.
"This is the sort of thing I would normally leave for someone else to take care of. As time passed something horrifying occurred to me. This wasn’t going to happen." This is the actual definition of horror. Thank you for putting it so plainly.
As I’ve gotten older I’ve had to come to grips with the fact that I have more of a shrinking mindset
I know it is an effort to organise/think about, and I am sure some annoying person in your life has already said this, but I am also an annoying person and I'm going to say it too: that is some very good future compost you have right there - hence all the worms etc. If you have a gardening neighbour they might actually like to have it.