Cancer

The things you end up handling without anyone asking you to handle them become yours in a way that formal assignments never do. You picked up the thread because you saw it hanging loose, and now months later you are the person everyone expects to keep pulling it. This kind of responsibility has no job description and no clear endpoint, which makes it both more important and more exhausting than the work that appears on your official list. The question this week is not whether you should keep doing it, but whether you are ready to own that you have been doing it all along.