i will absolutely take a bath over a shower whenever i'm not in a hurry

i've always felt like the only thing that makes a shower "good" is the "kills grime in less time" aspect of it, where the Goodness Level of the shower hinges on a few concrete beep boop factors like "time spent + water used to achieve satisfactory cleanliness"

a good bath is more of a meditative process that's harder to pin down. to consider them a luxury sometimes feels appropriate and other times feels like you might as well consider oxygen a luxury too, because being able to just relax in a body of warm water every so often makes life a hell of a lot easier to carry on with