Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Cancer season.
The vitality of the act was entirely obfuscated, the beauty, the terror, the sacrifice.' He took one last drag of this cigarette and put it out. 'Quite simply,' he said, 'we didn't believe. And belief was the one condition which was absolutely necessary. Belief, and absolute surrender.
Donna Tartt
Some relationships change their shape long before anyone says anything about it, and you have been living in the new version for months without naming what happened. The old way of being together stopped fitting, but neither of you called attention to the shift, so it sits between you like furniture that has been moved but not acknowledged. You both know the room looks different. You both know where the new boundaries are, what topics now require more care, which jokes no longer land the same way. The year ahead asks you to stop pretending the change is temporary or that silence will make it go away. What has already shifted wants to be seen clearly, not because it needs fixing, but because it deserves the honesty of being called by its real name.