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I started measuring my world in meters. Five hundred, that was my limit. Before all this, walking was automatic. I never thought about it. But now, somewhere around the 500-meter mark, something shifts. It isn’t pain, and it isn’t weakness. It feels like my legs slowly fill with cement. Each step gets heavier than the last, like I’m carrying something invisible that keeps getting denser. It always follows the same pattern. I walk, I feel fine, and then I don’t. If I keep going, it builds. When I lie down, it eases, but not fully. The heaviness never really resets anymore. It just fades enough to let me try again—until it comes back faster. That’s the part that unsettles me. Not the limit, but how quickly I reach it now. It made no sense. I kept thinking there had to be a simple explanation. Something mechanical. Something fixable. But my body didn’t behave in a way I could reason with. It had its own rules now. Over time, I stopped testing the limit. I just accepted it. Five hundred meters, then turn back. don’t push it. Don’t make it worse. That quiet shrinking of distance bothered me more than the symptom itself. One afternoon, I went out anyway. No plan, no real reason. I ended up walking into a sports store, more out of habit than intention. I drifted through it, not really looking for anything, until I stopped in front of a rack without knowing why. Compression leggings. I almost walked past it. I’d already tried the usual things—socks, salt, fluids. None of it had changed anything. This felt like more of the same. But the leggings caught my attention. They looked different—thicker, more structured, like they were designed to hold everything in place instead of just squeezing at the edges. I ran my hand over the fabric. It felt firm, almost resistant, like it would push back. I didn’t expect much from them. That night, I put them on. The pressure was immediate, even all the way up my legs. Not tight in a restrictive way—just constant. Like something was supporting the weight my legs had been carrying alone. I noticed it, but I didn’t let myself think too much about it. The next day, I went out to walk. The first part felt the same. Light, normal, unremarkable. Then I approached the point where it always changed. I was already bracing for it—the slow drop into heaviness, the familiar resistance. It came. But it didn’t land the same way. It was there, but softer. Less absolute. Like something had interrupted it before it could fully settle in. I kept walking. That alone felt strange. Normally, this was where I would turn back automatically. Now I was moving past it, waiting for it to catch up to me. Six hundred meters. My legs felt it—but they weren’t collapsing under it. Seven hundred. The heaviness was present, but it didn’t have that same dense, immovable quality. It felt… managed. Contained. I slowed down, more aware of my body than I had been in weeks. Not scanning for failure, but noticing the difference. The weight was still there, but it no longer felt like it was taking over. I stopped walking, not because I had to, but because I needed to understand what had just happened. Standing there, I realized the boundary had shifted. Not disappeared. Not solved. But moved. And the feeling that came with that wasn’t relief exactly. It was something quieter.For the first time, it didn’t feel like my body was closing in on me. It felt like there was space again.