2025: Forever Bookmarked

Dear 2025,

You opened with a wedding that wove my son’s heart to another’s, and halfway through the chapters, you surprised me with a fall that fractured not only my knee but my confidence too—an inciting incident that wove my soul back to itself.

This unexpected plot twist reframed my reality, and I have been bookmarking each scene ever since.

I felt every emotion imaginable—some familiar, others wholly unfamiliar. When I was cluelessly floating through the aftermath of the big bang, little did I know you were knitting a blanket of stellar memories.

Slowly, I began to understand why you did what you did. No complaints, just quiet acceptance.

To the world, you may be just another year, and to you, I am yet another passing being. But to me, you are the one who redrew my world, opening my eyes to an altered universe while I was still learning to walk it.

Though you left me lost in fog at first, the mist cleared to unveil the most revelatory view I’ve known. You were wildly unpredictable, wonderfully messy, deeply transformative, quietly mysterious, and undeniably real.

I think my mind won’t let you go; I can still see you as it replays each scene on a loop.

Funny how we were strangers twelve months ago. And now here I am, pouring out my overly poetic thoughts to you. I doubt you get many quite like me!

With all that I am and all that you have made me—a ripple of thoughts, a wave of emotions, a bouquet of memories, a sprinkle of melodrama, a lasting smile, and a heart that knows itself,
Me.

P.S. I know I’m on the last page of your closing chapter—the only ache is that I can never reread you.