@deepzensecrets: This year did not teach me how to always be strong. It taught me when to stop abandoning myself just to keep going. I tolerated things I would recognize much sooner now. I let go of people, expectations and versions of my future that I had held onto for far too long. I learned how easy it is to lose yourself in survival mode and how hard it can be to take yourself seriously again after years of simply pushing through. I will not leave this year untouched. Too much happened for that. But I will leave it clearer. I know what deserves my energy and what does not. I know where my boundaries are. I know who truly stays. And I know which version of myself I no longer want to be. I do not need to romanticize this year to respect what it changed in me. It did not go easy on me. But it did not keep me down either.