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I once mentioned how much I love when a period is coming to an end. With this year coming to an end in just 31 days,I feel nothing but excited. While I spend time putting my new goals together piece by piece, I also want to reflect on the good things that happened to me which I am especially grateful.for in the entire 2025 . I know I had a lot of happy moments who h I can't even recount but I can't forget the little efforts I made becoming this version wrapping up another year.

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If there one thing I'm grateful for, it's definitely growth. It's something that must happen no matter what. As long as someone is alive and breathing,growth happens. But it's not always visible unless you actually take the time to reflect. I can't stop appreciating myself on how much I grew in past 11 months. Earlier this year,I came to realize what it actually meant to lose yourself. The year started off so bad for me and I can't even lie,I already signed off 2025 as a bad year from the beginning. But now that I think of it,I wouldn't say It was a bad year after all.  Good things happened,and bad things happened as well.

One of the major things I'm grateful for is how much I've become more open-minded to things,to ideas and especially with people. It was one of the things I wanted to change so much much about myself. I used to have this very high wall around myself preventing people from getting too close to me  as a way of protecting my peace but yes,I figured out at some point, I'm going to have to need people. Gradually I let myself soften and I started to let a few people in sometime. And it turned out to be one the best things I did for myself this year. There are quite a few relationships I had to make better. 

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To cap it it all,my greatest achievement this year was making peace with myself. It was the most challenging and different part of it all. Now I don't feel so chaotic and in conflict with myself. All I needed to do was to clear out those voices in my head that kept making me feel like I couldn't do the things I want.  Bit by bit, I'm figuring out the things that truly matter to me. Now I feel a sense of direction in my life.

I've become more aware of the things and the people that drain me. Everything is start to feel like a puzzle having all it's peices ensembled.even though I haven't perfectly figured it all out yet, I'm happy for where I am all wary and eager to know what's next. So whenever I remember 2025, I knew it was a year of  great turning point for and It feels good already working towards that version of me that I've also dreamt of.

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