#Care Package

A care package is a cardboard box filled with distant indifference, offering a convenient excuse to postpone real responsibility until the tape is cut. Inside you’ll find standard snacks and hand creams—items selected more for the sender’s peace of mind than the recipient’s needs. What the recipient truly craves is closeness, but they receive a pamphlet of guilt wrapped in cellophane instead. We call this ‘sentiment,’ though it floats decisively over the shipping label like a hollow certificate. Love may be free, but the shipping fees for a care package are assuredly not.