Born Today?

Sometimes you know what you need to do before you understand why you need to do it, and the knowing sits in your chest like a door that opened before you knocked. The clarity feels almost unfair because it skipped the part where you wrestle with options and weigh the costs and talk it through with people who care about your welfare. Instead, there is just this certainty that arrived complete, and now you have to catch up to it with reasons that make sense to everyone else. The year ahead is the one where you stop apologizing for understanding something faster than the timeline everyone expected. What looks like impatience to other people is actually a different kind of thoroughness, and the months will prove that the answer you already carry was doing its own kind of work long before you were ready to call it a decision.