As December arrives, a familiar pressure settles in. The year must be assessed, accounted for, and neatly packaged. We are expected to look back with clarity, extract lessons, declare growth, and step into the new year lighter and wiser. There is comfort in this ritual. It gives shape to time, reassures us that life moves in discernible arcs, that effort leads somewhere visible. But not every year cooperates.

Some years resist summarising. They refuse to be reduced to achievements or failures, highs or lows. They leave behind loose threads — conversations unfinished, emotions unnamed, decisions postponed. For many, the past year has felt less like a story with a beginning and an end, and more like a prolonged stretch of endurance.

This insistence on resolution is not accidental. We live in a culture that prizes outcomes. Productivity, clarity, forward momentum — these are the currencies of........

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