Goodbye 2025!

Ah, that mandatory end-of-year post! I can now be as verbose as I want because, look at me, I have a blog. I understand that reading is not something people do a lot these days, but I love writing so you will have to deal with it. I’m also very snarky. Sorry not sorry.

Anyway, GOODBYE, 2025! This was an interesting year for me. I had to deal with many changes, professional and personal, but they were all very good ones.

We celebrated our 25th anniversary in January. I am still mind blown that I, of all people, casually became one of these couples that spend 25 years together. I don’t think “marriage is hard” or anything like that, it just works for us, just like that. It’s really easy. Incredible! Soon to be 26 years.

I went back to consulting and it has been fantastic for me. It’s a very different dynamic from being an employee, does wonders for my mind and work-life balance.

I attended Pride again for the first time in many years, and it was so good! I love Toronto Pride.

I had some fitness goals for this year:

• Running 10k. I stretched it to 14k – got injured just before hitting 15k, back to that later.
• Cycling a total of 1000k (indoor + outdoor distance) – I reached 1300k last week!
• Go back to ballet – it has been challenging because the studio is far, but working on it
• Go back to in-studio yoga – been doing that, and it’s been great
• I also added Pilates to the mix

Being Canadian and living in 2025, I had to work on some *personal growth*, let’s put it that way. The takeaway is that I’m learning that it’s really important to not worry about other peoples’ problems – I don’t *need* to carry the world on my shoulders. And if people want to burn their own house down, I can feel sorry but I don’t need to panic and convince them not to.

For 2026, I have already some goals (more like plans):

• I want to get away from Big Tech social media, and this blog is part of the plan. I’m going to write about the *why* on a later post. But the less Big Tech is involved in my life, I think the better it is for my mental health.
• I need to fix my sports injury to resume running. I’d like to increase my distance and hopefully get to a half marathon by September
• 1300k by bike was doable, so let’s make 1400k a goal for 2026
• More dance, yoga and Pilates to keep that body moving
• Less worry, more joy <3
  

In short, the changes I did in my life in 2025 were positive, and taught me that while there are fires everywhere, I can still find joy, peace and balance within my own self.

And, oh, yeah, fascists *hate* happy people. The strongest weapon against fascism is joy. Wishing that everyone finds joy and happiness in 2026!