Hello 2025!
Happy 2025, you guys! *confetti*
SO. Deviating from my norm, I did not read my horoscopes for this year. I just feel like… I don’t need it. Instead, I looked back at my Hello 2024 post and reflected on what I learned over the past year, what went right, what didn’t go so well and what I want to do this year. Is this ✨ character growth ✨?
If you’ve been keeping up with this space, you know 2024 was a year for/ of me. I actively made that choice, and I closed the year by saying I will be carrying this mindset into 2025. It’s something I need to keep working on. Now, as we enter into the new year, I feel like the next natural step in trying to keep myself as the focus is to learn (or rather, reevaluate) how I form connections with people – while staying true to myself and keeping myself grounded in my self-awareness.
No one is an island, and I feel like expanding the growth and knowledge I gained by focusing on myself is all about moving it from inward to outward. You know how you haven’t really learned something until you have applied it? Like in an exam or something? So if I was the lesson last year, I believe my connections and relationships would be my exam this year. How would I assess myself? By paying attention to how I present myself when interacting with others, if I’m being true to myself in group settings, and if I’m sustaining the boundaries I worked so. hard. to build. I hope I can share what this looks like at the end of this year in a way I would be proud to!
Speaking of blog posts, I hope to create more blog posts that connect with you on a deeper level. Now that the MAMMOTH of brain space my book was holding has gently cleared up, I want to explore these short-form writings again. While I hope my reflections – whether it’s about navigating life in my 30s, being Tamil, or just trying to find some joy and peace in this – can be of some meaning to you, writing is how I make sense of myself and the world around us. So I hope they also help me grow and evolve – mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.
I was going to say physically and then I thought “God, no!” – your girl lost FIVE whole kilograms last year and I do NOT want that to go to waste. This is the MOST I’ve lost in a single year, and I’m very proud of myself. Whoever is telling you it’s going to be impossible to lose weight in your 30s and beyond is LYING. Okay, excluding things like having a child and other forms of major hormonal shifts. I can’t comment on that. But as a child-free or single woman, and I’m sure there are factors like genetics at play – just don’t take it as a blanket statement to give up on your health and well-being.
I had said I hoped to find it in me to do a health check-up last year, and I am so glad I did. For the first time in a long time, I feel healthy. And I want to keep feeling this way. So, I am committing to annual check-ups from here on. I also worked hard to ensure balanced plates last year (as much as possible, not every single time, I’m not a lunatic. Have you seen the entire blog post I wrote about biryani??) and I’m going to keep up with that this year. Not to be a broken record but eating good really has so much difference on my mental and physical health. And my balanced plates still bring me joy and I don’t feel like I’m restricting myself too much so why stop this?
That said, I was supposed to increase my workouts last year though but heh, considering how I was last year, I’m okay with that. I’m just going to work towards it this year. Baby steps. And just so we are both clear, the diet and workouts are NOT for weight loss. It’s certainly a nice bonus, but it’s really about strength, good habits, and ageing well.
And that’s about it! I really don’t want to think much about anything else. I’m just grateful for another year and I can’t wait to see the adventures it will hold. (I mean, I can, I’m trying to live in the now, but you get it). Happy 2025 again! I hope it brings you everything you wish for.
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