Born Today?

The things you carry without choosing them become part of how you move through rooms, and most people mistake the carrying for who you are instead of what happened to you. What you inherited shows up in the small daily choices you make without thinking about them, the way you handle conflict, the particular silence you keep, the words that come out of your mouth when you are tired. You have been managing this inheritance for years now, and the management has become invisible to you even as it shapes everything else. The year ahead asks you to see the daily work you do to keep something difficult from taking over completely, and recognize that the work itself has become a kind of strength you did not know you were building. What felt like burden has quietly turned into capability.