🎉 a note for the end of 2025

i'm ending 2025 without a neat, little takeaway. unfortunately, nothing that can be tied up in a bow.

some things became clearer, others weren't. a few things asked for patience i didn't know i had, and some answers never arrived at all. this wasn't a year that rewarded things i was used to. what did change, though, was my relationship with understanding. i learned that not everything around us needs to be processed immediately and not everything benefits from being explained. sometimes just noticing was enough.

this year also made it hard to ignore how much context shapes us and our experiences. through multiple experiences with health systems, differing expectations, clashing timelines, and lack of access, to name a few, i learned that when things feel like they're falling apart inside, it actually is rarely personal failure. it is friction. seeing that first hand really changed how i carried things moving forward.

this space grew so much this year, but still stayed small in brief thoughts, quiet pauses and ideas left out in the open. it felt right, because not every though needs to be expanded upon to make a difference. i'm not closing the year off with goals, but closing it off with attention to what i'm willing to question, where i should be slowing down, and what i should stop forcing.

if you were here at any point of this year with me, thank you so much for being part of it. and with that, i wish 2025 farewell, let's see what 2026 brings us!

~ ☀️