sometimes it's okay to be do things for poetic reasons in a kind of cringe way. actions speak louder than words, yes, but they can also be just as layered, discrete, abstract, etc.
Even if it sucks so much it's a nice little time to just write your little words. Like journaling but sexier and more mysterious or whatever. SO romantic to say I'm writing poetry when really it's more or less a journal entry with lots of figurative language
Cooking and eating with people is possibly the most lindy activity of them all. Everyone needs to eat and at least one person likes to cook. very spiritually fulfilling