Cancer

A risk that feels smaller in the morning grows heavier as the day wears on because you start asking other people what they think about it. The decision was always yours, but somewhere between breakfast and lunch you begin collecting opinions that feel like requirements. Each conversation adds weight that was never part of the original question. By evening, what started as a simple yes or no has become a referendum on who you are supposed to be. The risk itself never changed, just the number of voices you let into the room.