Cancer

The things passed down without your permission carry more than their original purpose. A temper that skips generations, a way of holding money too tightly, the particular silence that follows certain kinds of conversations. You did not choose these patterns, but they chose you, and now you are the one responsible for what happens to them next. The hardest part is not the having but the deciding what deserves to be kept and what needs to end with you. Some inheritances are gifts that look like burdens until you understand their true function.