Let's dance, 2026

not your average "new year, new me" reflection.

I kept thinking—once I move, once I recover from my house burning down, once I find home, once I’m single, once I settle.

But if 2025 taught me anything (and I’m smiling as I write this) it’s that life is actually just like this. A series of highs and lows. Peaks and valleys. Like the pulse of your heart or the rhythm of your breath. Expansion, contraction. Feeling like you’re irrevocably on top of the world, and then feeling like you’re absolutely underneath it. Life comes in waves — it isn’t a straight shot to the finish line.

You don’t climb to the mountain and build a home there; you make the descent down and then set your sights on a new mountain. If you’re really masterful, you learn to love your relationship with the descent. You learn to befriend your own underworld and your shadows as you shed old parts of yourself. Every low becomes the fertile ground from which you rise stronger and lighter, with deeper roots.

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That’s the key. You learn to trust-fall every time that life asks you to go to those deep, scary places. You just fucking jump into them, and you learn to find the thrill in surrendering.

You keep asking; How can I grow through this? And then you miraculously do.

And some people will think you’re delusional for the way that you turn your grief into stepping stones that lead you back into joy, but what’s the alternative? To wallow and shrink and let life swallow you whole?

You would never. That’s not the life you choose.

Because in life, we get moments. Glimpses. Opportunities and good luck and life-changing ideas and connections that flash through you like lightning. But then we go back to the dreaming and working and striving and loving and healing and changing.

And in between those moments, we get to choose. We get to choose to let the heart be the compass forward when every other direction is unclear.

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Life isn’t linear. We are constant works in progress. We are constantly changing.

But if you can trust whatever life and the intelligent future throw your way, you will evolve, and you will only move closer and closer to the things that you want.

The evolution of your ego & soul never stops. Change is the only constant. But there is beauty to be found in the metamorphosis and the movement. And if you’re really good, you’ll learn to perceive the rhythms of life like music that you can dance to.

The future is uncertain. And now that I’ve embraced that, I’m feeling bright-eyed and present and excited about all that’s ahead.

Like Ram Dass says: "You can do it like it's a great weight on you, or you can do it like it's part of the dance."

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So I say, let’s fucking dance this year.

Who’s with me?!

— B