The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Your Year of Letting Someone In. This is the year you discover that being known all the way down is the best deal going, and you stop guarding the door quite so hard. A friend who has seen your worst hour and stuck around becomes, this spring, the person you call first instead of last. By summer, a conversation you have been quietly dreading turns out to be the one that brings you closer, because you let it change your mind about something. You will say a true thing out loud and watch the room soften instead of scatter. I love that you are finally willing to be moved. The people who get to really know you are the lucky ones, and this is the year you let a few more of them in on the secret of you.