What stayed with me most here is how ordinary memories become the real weight of a life.

Not the grand moments, but the tea gone cold, the football match, the awkward love, the friends who remained when others disappeared. The line “FOOTBALL SAVED MY LIFE” changes the whole emotional temperature of the piece for me. It suddenly becomes painfully human.

And that final image doesn’t feel dramatic so much as exhausted. Which somehow makes it even heavier.