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I’m late to the party per usual lol but 2025 was indisputably the greatest year of my life. Even more ups and downs than ever, but with 2024’s lessons under my belt, riding life’s waves was much more bearable.

This year taught me many lessons but the motif which stood paramount was “discernment.” For what did a life of emotional hardship endow me with if not a sharpened blade to separate that which seeks to serve me from that which seems to harm me. Discernment feels like the final badge in my self awareness. Discernment feels like a lens which is finally tuned to your vision. Discernment feels like a superpower. Lacking discernment will have you chasing people and spaces that don’t serve you. Only once a door closes can you the signs behind it. 

Last year was the year of love and loss. This year was the year of rebuilding and cultivation, which none of that is achieved alone. I spent this year deepening connections with my loved ones. I leaned on the support systems that I hadn’t  even realized I had built around myself. More beautifully is how instinctually they all sprung into action. They poured into my cup and I really watched it overflow. 

I spent my year where it mattered, and for me, that was inward. I spent time grieving, reflecting, and growing while also stripping away all my pride. Discernment was the final maturation of my internal monologue. Accepting that what I see, hear, and feel are truth. Understanding that people will often try to measure your potential and success with the same ruler that defines their shortcomings. I reject all things which don’t align with my intuition and ease my nervous system. 

Some hatchets got buried and others got buried with their hatched, either way I’m grateful for all the memories of the past year and can’t wait to see all the things in store for me and mine’s ❤️ forever thankful
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Sometimes you gotta lose some sleep to keep the legacy in tact 👑
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2024 reflection
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“Even those who limp go not backwards.”
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finally took some time to reflect on the year that was 2024 and wow… this past year felt like the most complete year of my life yet. all the waves of emotions. i made many new friends and met many new faces, while wishing a final farewell to some familiar faces. i started the year grounded in my roots back home. i visited my grandmother’s headstone and finally finished grieving. i bought a car, i traveled the world with my woman, we went to weddings, i went from groomsman to pallbearer in the same week, i spent the holidays with family, i laughed a lot, and probably cried just as much. i rode the up and downs life threw at me. i learned to accept the fluctuations in my body and emotions. i’ve grown intimately in tune with myself and continue to grow in my understanding of self; what it means to be and to live, especially outside of my conditionings. i’m exploring my desires in life. i’ve felt uniquely human. scuffed up the kicks but it’ll buff. or i’ll just get a new pair. either way, journey continues…
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this year was filled with lessons and memories that 20 photos could never truly capture or express. nonetheless i am grateful and look forward for those lessons yet to come.
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truly thankful for every one of you in my life 🫶
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celebrated my birthday weekend with some family that never left, switched or chose 

i pray for another year of physical, mental and spiritual wealth for not only me but everyone i care about
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Locked in, I don’t know what lonely is 🧘🏾
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back to up