Gemini
Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
The expectation you have been carrying around this week is not actually yours, and the relief of realizing this is immediate and complete. You can feel the difference between what you thought you wanted and what someone else needed you to want, the way a borrowed coat never sits quite right on your shoulders. The gap between these two things has been the source of most of your recent confusion, not any failure to meet the standard itself. What you discover when you hand back what was never yours to hold is that your own expectations were there all along, waiting underneath, and they ask for something entirely different.