Cancer

A promise you made months ago sits differently in your chest now than it did when you first said yes. Your hands remember the weight of agreeing before your mind understood what the yes would cost. The thing that seemed generous then feels like something else now, not because you have changed your mind but because your body has learned what your mind did not know. You cannot think your way back to the original feeling, and you cannot ignore what your ribs are telling you about the weight of carrying this forward.