Welcome 2026
This year's off t o an interesting start but amidst all the devastating news, hope is what keeps us going in the end I attended an event as someone's plus-one and on our way back, a conversation came up: albeit casual, it's stayed with me ever since. My goals for 2025. I was asked if any of them was met, and my answer was disappointingly, a resounding no. There was a follow up question: were the goals realistic? And quite frankly, I understood why it was asked. How could I not have achieved a single goal out of all the goals I set out to conquer for the year? However, I wouldn't say they were unrealistic. I really think they were. There was nothing on that list that was impossible or unattainable. What that conversation made me realize was that I'd been sitting on my ass for too long, resigning to the fate that my surrounding had supposedly determined for me. That's definitely not to say I didn't try last year. Because I did. Believe me, I did. But ...