I just can’t shake this. My dad, he’s 48, right? In a team meeting today, he was presenting, and he just… forgot words. Like, actual common nouns. Mid-sentence, just blanked. He looked terrified. The whole thing made my stomach clench. I keep thinking, is this like, a cognitive decline indicator? I mean, my mother’s family has a history of dementia and all this pressure on me to, like, succeed and make them proud but what if it’s just… inevitable? Fuck. What if that’s my future? It’s a terrifying thought when you’re supposed to be building everything right now.