Liminal Year

2025: the liminal year. Inside of a Zwischenzustand, a chapter already finished a new one not yet started. My round-the-world trip. New experiences. Meeting most interesting people and moments of deep self examination.

My moral compass realigned to a hard north and resuming the search for honesty with my self. Eventually coming back to generous leniency as the maxim of my interactions with others. The dialectic has dominated my personal thoughts in most of 2025. It’s not easy to always hold on to both leniency and honesty when exhausted from rough nights traveling.

Saying no the wrong things is the first step of saying yes to the right things. Do I trust my gut? And Taste. Taste is my reflective intuition in application of internal honesty. So I try to hone my taste.

Of course plenty of missteps happened and will continue to happen. It is now clear to me that honesty as the foundation is oftentimes obscured by the typical hedonistic pleasure and comforts. But those come with an internal dissonance that made me deviate from my values. But I see the source again. It feels authentic to be in touch with my honesty again and can’t wait to see how it will evolve. I hope to stay in touch into the next year which will be filled with lots of new challenges.