My Year in Review: Kintsugi
My Year in Review: Kintsugi I didn’t plan for my year to split in half. No one wakes up thinking, this will be the year my chest is opened, my heart is stitched, and my entire identity is rearranged like backyard furniture after a storm. But life has a strange way of forcing you to face truths you’ve been dodging, carrying, or numbing your way through. I’ve come to see this year through the lens of Kintsugi , the art of repairing what is broken with gold. It is the realisation that the cracks don't just mark where I was damaged; they define how I’ve been rebuilt. I’m more because of the imperfections. This year will forever be divided in my mind as before the surgery and after the surgery, with everything I am now shaped by the moment in the middle. Time seemed to pause and ask me, “ Are you really living the way you want to? And if not… what are you going to do about it?” This is my year in review. Not the glossy “highlights reel.” Not a productivity flex or a list of achi...