The greatest pleasures are had in retirement, and in the company of friends.
Cicero
Your Year of the Thing You No Longer Need. This is the year you discover, with some delight, that a hunger you carried so long it felt structural has quietly dissolved, and what you imagined filling its place turns out to be more sustaining than the original ever was. That imagined version was always the real one. A friendship deepens in a way that requires no performance from you, no particular presentation, just your actual company on an ordinary evening, and that turns out to be exactly enough. A project you'd been forcing toward someone else's idea of finished finds its own shape when you stop pushing, and the shape is better. I love that this is your year for that particular freedom. The things you release now come back as something lighter, and you carry them easily all the way through.