An Open Letter: It Wasn’t Your Year, Was It?

2023 as it was meant to be.

Image by David Powers

You are where you are supposed to be. As much as you’d have liked the sun to rise at a perfect angle and James Baskett to hum the tune of “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” on our windowsills, you knew that time doesn’t always bring with it a picturesque Disney postcard. But if the journey so far was any indication of your vulnerability, instability, and despair, the opposite must also be true.

There are billions of combinations to how you got to where you are today. Every one of your actions was met with an equal or opposite reaction—every cause rippling with a tidal wave of effects. There’s an even or disproportionate number of things that you could control. There are those that you couldn’t. Your gut told you one thing, but your hunger pang of ambition befalls you on to another. 

You find yourself unable to decide because of the lack of options. You find yourself crippled by decision paralysis because there were just too many options. You are in a constant state of flux. Your e…