Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
Your Year of the Long Wager. This is the year your staying power becomes the argument, the one no counterevidence can quite unseat, because you have learned that conviction held through difficulty is a different thing entirely from conviction never tested. A project you have been tending past the point where others would have moved on begins to show what you always suspected it was capable of, sometime before spring gives way to summer. A relationship you committed to keeping, through stretches when it asked more than it gave, finds its easy season at last. The year asks you to stay in the room when the room gets quiet, to keep believing what your deeper knowing has not let go of even when the logical case looked thin. You have always been better at this than you give yourself credit for. The wager pays.