Jaime Amadio

When you feel stuck or uncertain, clarity can start to feel urgent. Like an item on your to-do list that’s been glaring at you for weeks. You might tell yourself: “I just need to figure this out.” “Once I’m clear, I’ll feel better.” “Why can everyone else decide things without a full existential crisis?” So you do what any responsible adult would do. You think harder.
 You analyze every possible outcome.
 You replay conversations from six months ago like they’re Oscar-worthy flashbacks..
 You...

Feeling lost isn’t always dramatic. Sometimes it looks like getting up, doing what needs to be done, functioning well enough — while quietly feeling disconnected from yourself. You might not be in crisis. You might not even be unhappy in an obvious way. And yet, something feels just slightly off. If that’s where you are right now, I want to say this clearly: Nothing is wrong with you. Feeling lost is not a personal failure. It’s not a sign that you’ve messed up your life or taken a wrong turn...

This is me. 2025 hasn’t been loud It hasn’t been dramatic in the way movies promise or collapses warn us about. 
It’s been quieter than that. Heavier. The kind of year that doesn’t knock you over — it slowly asks you to sit down. If I had to name the dominant feeling of this year, it would be exhaustion .
 Not the kind sleep fixes. The kind that comes from carrying hope and disappointment in the same suitcase. Because alongside the tiredness, there is hope.
 And alongside the hope, a sharp...