One who knows others is intelligent. One who knows themselves is truly wise. One who defeats others is strong. One who defeats themselves is stronger still.
Mencius
Your Year of Running Toward. This is the year the direction clarifies, and the clarifying feels less like a decision than a recognition, the way you suddenly see the door was always open. A conversation in February lands differently than the person speaking it intended, and you carry it around for weeks until it clicks into something useful. By spring, a project that had been losing its color picks up speed because your read of it sharpened, and now the whole frame is new. Someone close to you notices the shift before you name it, and what they say out loud makes you laugh because it is so exactly right. The year ahead rewards the honest look inward the way a good run rewards the first mile, and you know how good that first mile feels.