If this year has been hard for you I know 2025 hasn't unfolded the way you pictured it. I know there were moments you thought things were finally moving in the right direction - and then life turned, abruptly and painfully. You might have watched dreams slip, goals fade, health shake, relationships strain, and hope waver. Maybe you spent nights staring at the ceiling, trying to understand why the year felt like resistance instead of reward. Maybe you tried to force meaning into the chaos, tried to stay strong when you were exhausted, tried to keep smiling when you wanted to scream. If you're grieving the year you imagined - that's valid. If it hurts that you've spent more time surviving than thriving, that's real. I hope that as this year closes, you find peace not in what you achieved, but in the fact that you endured. I hope you allow yourself to recognize the quiet victories: the strength to continue, the maturity to let go, the patience to wait for better, and the humility to admit when you were hurting. I hope you stop measuring your worth by missed milestones, unmet expectations, or paused dreams. Standing at the end of the year with a beating heart, breathing lungs, wiser eyes, softer edges - that is not failure. That is transformation. So may you enter the next season not filled with regret over what slipped away, but gratitude that you made it through.