What 2025 Taught Me: What I’ll Carry, and What I’ll Leave

2025 asked more of me than I expected.

Not in loud ways, and not through visible achievements, but through quiet moments of reckoning. It was a year of noticing where I was forcing myself forward without direction, and where I was staying still out of fear. Somewhere between exhaustion and clarity, I began sorting what truly belongs to me from what no longer does.

These are the lessons I’m carrying with me, and the ones I am consciously choosing to leave behind.