Cancer
I will tell you something about stories. They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
Leslie Marmon Silko, 'Ceremony'
The plan that looks different now than it did six months ago is carrying the weight of all the conversations that happened in between. You have been listening to voices that were never part of your original thinking, and their influence shows up in the small adjustments you keep making without fully realizing why. This is not about changing your mind or losing your way. It is about the way a plan grows heavier and more particular when it has to account for the people whose opinions have started to matter to you. The version you are building now knows things the earlier version could not have known.