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Somewhere along the way, you became the one who holds it together for everyone.
You read a room before you walk into it. Who's tense, who needs smoothing over, who's about to drop something you already know you'll be the one to catch. For a long time that felt like being dependable. Underneath it was something quieter. A belief that if you don't handle it, it all falls apart. The work now isn't doing more. You have never had a problem doing more. It's learning to tell which weight is actually yours, and leaving the rest with the people it belongs to.