Cancer
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
Maya Angelou
Sometimes you know what you need to do weeks before you understand why you need to do it. The certainty sits in your chest like a fact you cannot yet explain, making itself known through small resistances and sudden clarity about things that seemed fine yesterday. You find yourself saying no to requests that would have been automatic yeses, or finally speaking up in conversations where you used to just listen. The reason will catch up eventually, but right now you are moving on information that bypassed your usual deliberation entirely. What you carry back from these moments is not just the decision itself, but the reminder that your instincts often arrive dressed as conclusions.