Plan for 2025: A Manifesto for the Coming Year
by a Curious Soul, for Everyone and No One
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The Year is 2025: A Canvas Untouched
You. Yes, you. The reader, the wanderer, the seeker. Youโre here because 2025 looms ahead, vast and unknowable. And so am Iโstanding before this blank stretch of time, ready to sketch it with ambition, joy, and defiance. This year will not pass like a shadow over my life. No, I will fill it with bold strokes and delicate whispers, with triumphs and blunders. I will break the chains of inertia.
But before I can invite you to reflect on your own journey, let me share mine. For 2025, I have mapped out three personal goals to refine who I am, and three creative goals to amplify what I offer to the world. These are not resolutions to be whispered at midnight, only to dissolve by dawn. These are declarationsโfierce, fragile, unapologetic.
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Act I: The Personal Revolution
Here lies the part of the plan where I wrestle with myself. Growth isnโt easy, and it shouldnโt be. But whatโs the alternative? Stagnation? Not this year. Not ever.
Goal 1: Master the Art of Solitude
I will stand still and listen.
In a world that howls for attention, I will carve out silence. I will sit in rooms without screens, without the constant hum of notifications, and I will learn to be aloneโnot lonely, but profoundly, exquisitely alone.
Why? Because solitude isnโt emptiness; itโs fullness. In those quiet spaces, Iโll find whatโs left unsaid, unexplored, untouched. Iโll meet the parts of myself that Iโve ignored for too long.
And youโreader, do you dare to sit with yourself? Or does the thought make you squirm?
Goal 2: Nurture the Body, Worship the Vessel
This is not about punishment.
Not about chasing some unattainable image crafted by an industry that feeds on insecurity. No, this is about reverence. My body, this flawed, miraculous thing, deserves to be nourished and moved.
Iโll experiment: yoga at dawn, running under a silver sky, perhaps swimming in rivers when summer permits. Iโll treat food not as fuel, but as artโtasting, savoring, celebrating the ritual of eating.
And what about you? Do you move through life like a ghost in your own body, or have you learned to revel in the physicality of existence?
Goal 3: Rekindle the Bonds That Matter
We all lose people, donโt we? Sometimes through the brutal severing of conflict, other times through the quiet erosion of neglect. But 2025 will not be a year of regret.
I will pick up the phone. I will write letters on thick, cream-colored paper. I will sit across from the people who matter most and tell them the truths that remain unspoken.
You should try it, too. When was the last time you said, โI love youโ without choking on the words?
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Act II: The Creative Odyssey
The second act begins. This is where I stretch beyond myself, where I create not just for survival, but for beauty, for rebellion, for legacy.
Goal 1: Write a Novel That Defies Genre
This has haunted me for yearsโa novel that doesnโt fit neatly into the boxes of mystery, fantasy, or literary fiction. A novel that spills over the edges, unapologetic in its strangeness.
Iโve already imagined its jagged plot: a tale of time loops and fleeting memories, of a nameless protagonist wandering through forgotten cities. In 2025, it will leave my mind and bleed onto the page.
And what about you? What strange stories do you carry? Perhaps this is your year to set them free.
Goal 2: Build a Creative Commune
Not a literal one, though that would be splendid. No, Iโm speaking of a digital spaceโa sanctuary for creators to gather, share, critique, and evolve. It will start small: a blog, a newsletter, maybe a forum. But it will grow, because there is strength in collaboration.
You should join us. Yes, you. The writer, the painter, the dreamer reading these words.
Goal 3: Experiment with New Mediums
Iโve always written with words. Now, I want to write with light and shadow, with sound, with motion. Photography, film, maybe even sculpture. In 2025, I will become a beginner again, fumbling and failing with giddy enthusiasm.
What about you? When was the last time you let yourself be terrible at something new?
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Intermission: A Word to the Wanderers
Youโve stayed this long, so let me say this: these goals arenโt just mine. They are fragments of a universal longingโto become more than what we are, to leave the world richer than we found it.
And you, too, have goals. Theyโre flickering in your mind as you read this, arenโt they? Write them down. Declare them. Let them be as grand or as small as they need to be.
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Act III: The Execution of Dreams
Ah, but hereโs the rub: goals are nothing without action. I can wax poetic about solitude, fitness, love, novels, communes, and photography, but unless I move my hands and feet, they will remain just thatโwords on a screen.
So hereโs the plan:
For personal goals: Iโll set weekly rituals. Sundays for silence, mornings for movement, and Fridays for heartfelt connections.
For creative goals: Iโll dedicate specific months to each. Spring for writing the novel, summer for building the commune, autumn for experimenting with mediums.
And you, reader, how will you execute your dreams?
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Finale: A Year in Bloom
2025 isnโt just a year. Itโs a garden waiting to be tended, a theater waiting for the lights to dim and the curtain to rise. It will be messy. It will be imperfect. But it will be mine, and I will make it magnificent.
What about you? What will you do with this time youโve been given? Because letโs be clear: itโs finite.
This is not just my manifesto. Itโs yours. Pick up your brush.
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