What a Year 2025 Has Been

Above the Clouds at Sunrise by Frederic Edwin Church

A big, full twelve months is about to bid us farewell. And what a year 2025 has been.

Looking back, the world felt louder than usual. New national leaders took office, Gen-Z-led protests filled the streets, and military attacks dominated the headlines far too often. In between, culture and history unfolded side by side: Anora won five Oscars, Taylor Swift got engaged, and we said goodbye to figures who once felt almost eternal, Pope Francis and Ozzy Osbourne among them.
Science, meanwhile, moved forward quietly but steadily. The FDA approved its first cervical cancer test, and NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System detected Comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object that may be the oldest known comet. So many events, so many shifts, all compressed into a single year.

It would be easy to call 2025 turbulent – and it was. But strangely, I don’t look back on that turbulence with resentment. Quite the opposite. Somewhere between the noise, the uncertainty, and the constant sense of change, I found myself needing a place to pause, to process, and to put things into words. In an unexpected way, this very turbulence became my source of inspiration to start blogging.

During this turbulent year, in my personal life as well, I began translating the ideas sitting in my mind into words, simply to create space for the challenges still ahead.

At the beginning, I was deeply skeptical. I questioned whether my ideas would be worth reading, whether I should take up the time of people who might happen to stumble upon my thoughts, and many other doubts inevitably followed.
But perhaps thanks to the age we live in, all it took was creating a quiet harmony between the keys of a keyboard and my ideas, as if I were a pianist giving life to notes. And somehow, that was enough.

Through this blog, I discovered the quiet joy of sharing my thoughts and feelings in their simplest form, even with people I may never meet. Those of you who chose to spend your valuable time with my reflections became an unexpected gift of 2025, a birthday present I did not know I was waiting for.

And I am so grateful for that! Thank you so much!

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