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At the funeral, my aunt handed me a box. Inside was his watch—a chunky, scratched-up diver’s watch that weighed a ridiculous 200 grams. I slipped it onto my wrist. It was heavy. It tugged at the fine hairs on my arm.

The phrase came to me on a Tuesday, in the backseat of a taxi that smelled of pine air freshener and rain.

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As the taxi merged onto the highway, I caught my reflection in the window. For the first time in three years, I didn’t look like a ghost. I looked like someone who belonged to the world.

I had spent the previous three years chasing lightness. I Marie-Kondo’d my apartment until the walls echoed. I broke up with a perfectly nice person because the relationship didn’t "spark joy." I quit a stable job for freelance chaos, believing that anxiety was just the price of freedom. I was a ghost trying to weigh nothing at all. At the funeral, my aunt handed me a box

You have to pick something up. A person. A place. A project. A pain that you stop running from.

Then, you have to keep holding it after your arms get tired. It was heavy

And it is, I promise you, a very pleasant kind of heavy."