I have control over my health and wellness.

Control here lives on the input side. What you eat, when you sleep, whether you move, whether you make the appointment you have been circling for three weeks.

Outcomes are less obedient. Bodies carry genetics and history and plain luck, and people who do everything right still get unlucky, and that is not a verdict on their discipline.

But the inputs are genuinely yours, and they matter far more across a decade than across a week, which is exactly why they are so easy to skip and so hard to fake.

The appointment is still there. Making it takes four minutes.