The greatest deception people suffer is from their own opinions.
Michel de Montaigne
Your Year of Knowing Anyway. This is the year you stop waiting for certainty to arrive on a white horse and discover that you already know, that you have known for a while, that the knowing has been sitting in the room with you like a patient cat. Something you have been calling a preference turns out in April to be an actual decision, and making it out loud feels like opening a window in a house that has been closed all winter. A creative project or collaboration finds its shape when you stop trying to decide what it should be and let it tell you. By late autumn, someone asks what you want, and the answer comes before you can wonder whether you are allowed to want it. The version of you who knows what it wants has been here all along. This year, you let them lead.