Do not seek for things to happen the way you wish, but wish them to happen the way they do.
Epictetus
Your Year of Staying True. This is the year the thing you have been faithful to, without much fanfare and without guarantees, turns out to have been exactly right. A relationship you have tended, one that asked more of your honesty than your comfort, finds a new ease in spring because you did not abandon it when ease was missing. Your taste, the particular way you see what works and what doesn't, stops apologizing for itself in a meeting or conversation, and people pull from it openly, gratefully, as they have always pulled from it quietly. By late autumn, you have your answer about one commitment you have been holding, and the answer suits you. The year rewards the kind of loyalty that names itself clearly. Stay in the rooms that deserve your presence.