With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde
Your Year of Asking for the Real Thing. This is the year the gap closes, gently, between what you quietly want and what you actually let yourself reach for. You have been so good at keeping things pleasant, at making room for everyone else's needs in the arrangement, that asking for your own has started to feel like an imposition. It is not. In winter, a conversation you have been rescheduling in your mind finally happens, and the other person says yes, warmly, without hesitation. By spring, one deliberate ask opens a professional door that had been standing there waiting for you to try the handle. People around you have always relied on your steadiness. This year you discover that steadiness also belongs to you, something you can call on to say the true thing, simply, and stand in it.