People sometimes ask me what I fear. It isn't monsters. It isn't failure. It isn't even hardship. I've survived enough of that to know it passes. What I truly fear is losing my agency. I fear not being free to decide my own path. I fear other people making decisions about my life without ever stopping to ask what I need, what I want, or who I am. I fear being pushed, coerced, or cornered into living someone else's idea of a life. Freedom, to me, isn't doing whatever I please. It's having the dignity to choose. To say "yes" because I mean it, and "no" because I mean that too. Take away that choice, and you don't merely inconvenience me. You take away a piece of who I am. #Agency #Autonomy #Freedom #SelfDetermination #HumanRights #PersonalLiberty