Born Today?

Some decisions feel enormous because you have been thinking about them for so long that they have absorbed more weight than the actual choice can hold. The decision itself might be straightforward, but the months of turning it over have made it feel like the thing that will define everything that comes after. You know the difference between a choice that will change your life and a choice that has simply lived in your head too long, but when you are standing inside the thinking, they feel identical. The real decision is often smaller and clearer than the version you have been rehearsing. The year ahead asks you to trust the part of you that already knows what you want to do, and stop feeding the part that wants to make it more complicated than it needs to be.