2025 new year's resolutions

1. here's what's for sure: one day you will die. live accordingly.

2. silliness is serious business. laughter is the first language we learn how to speak for a reason.

3. what would a life that honored all the things you need to feel look like ? immigrate there, in exile from repression.

4. what a bore to know. seek bewilderment. astonishment is microdosing heaven.

5. avoidance is not the cure, it is the culprit. do the damn thing. inelegantly. gloriously.

6. there are no benchmarks. pace your life with wonder as a metronome. follow what charms you.

7. 'always' is a slur against life itself. nothing is fixed. even the most stubborn stone weathers over time.

8. what a blessing to be misunderstood! proof that authenticity is where you call home.

9. fear is a false prophet who preaches calamity over capacity. be heretical: possibility is your ministry.

10. physicists teach us about gravity. poets about love. we need both to ground us to this earth.

11. there are more than a million words. not one can hold you like a hug. when the pain is so great platitudes fall apart reach out.  -- Alok Vaid-Menon