“All my life, I’ve been heavy. This weight is invisible to everyone but me, but it’s there, every day, weighing me down with every step. I didn’t choose it. It was given to me. It’s mine to carry, except I don’t want it anymore. I just want to feel soft. I want to be light and easy. But there’s nowhere safe for me to put this weight, so I have to keep carrying it until the day it finally breaks my bones and grinds me down into dust, and there’s nothing left of me.
