Merry Christmas and happy new year. If you celebrate something else I hope that goes well for you.
This year reminded me that survival isn’t the same as living—and that clarity usually shows up after the noise fades.
To everyone still sorting through the wreckage of bad systems, bad years, bad decisions, or inherited lies: you’re not behind. You’re early in the next phase.
The holidays tend to pressure us into pretending things are neat, resolved, or healed. They rarely are. Growth is messy. Truth is uncomfortable. And rebuilding takes longer than anyone wants to admit.
If you showed up this year—questioned something, changed your mind, stayed standing, or simply refused to go back—you did enough.
Here’s to fewer illusions, better questions, and the courage to keep writing your way forward.
See you next year.
MicG
Life after door kicking. 
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