Cancer

The private rules you follow are the ones your body learned first, before anyone explained why they mattered. You check the locks twice, always take the same route home, never eat the last piece of anything without asking first, even when you live alone. These small rituals look like preferences from the outside, but they feel like survival from the inside. They are the ways you learned to make a place safe before you had words for what safety meant. This week, one of those rules is asking to be examined, not abandoned, just understood for what it has been doing all this time.