HANH TAT

Happy 2025!

I wrote the following piece for the start of the new year, which I was going to publish on my social media as usual, but I decided to record it for my first YouTube video instead, just for the fun of it, even if it’s just my friends watching (so hello friends!).

Here’s the YT link if you’re interested: https://youtube.com/shorts/sX4A72I2UQE?si=IbbQtx35DQrADGdx

~o~

TIME

It is said that time is simply a human invention, that it is not linear in the way we perceive it to be. Yet in the modern world, it often feels like our every waking minute, paradoxically, is dictated to by this concept of time.

So, as we play along with this game of time, reflecting on the year just completed and setting intentions for the one ahead, let us remember to factor in time to pause, to make space in our days for doing nothing and for simply being, being in our bodies, being with our breath, for spending time in our inner landscapes, for being with life.

Let us remember to not be so focused on reaching our goals that we forget that the learning on the way to the outcomes of said goals is as important, if not more, so than the outcomes themselves.

Let us remember that success isn’t necessarily about the things we achieve, but also about who we are being, how we are growing and evolving and thus who we are becoming.

And most importantly, let us remember to live from the heart, to cultivate love for ourselves and others, to practice heart-based consciousness so that it becomes a habit, our norm, not just something we visit fleetingly here and there.

For these are the things that will remain in our hearts and minds when time marches on and our years roll by. How we express love and how we share love with those in our lives, will ultimately be the measure of lives well lived.

So here’s wishing you a blessed and joyful 2025!