Curtain Call on 2025
Notes from a year that didn’t go as per the plan
If I had to sum up 2025 in one word, it would be serendipity.
I’ve always been structured, well-planned, well-organized, the type to detail everything down to the last item. But in doing so, I never left space for serendipity to happen. This year, I decided to fuck around and find out.
I made decisions that don’t make any rational sense: I shifted jobs. I quit a job to be unemployed on purpose. I started learning keyboard. I trained professionally for cricket. As a 31-year-old in 2025, with all the uncertainties and complexities in the world, none of this makes sense. And honestly? That’s the beauty of it.
I’m writing this from a place of privilege, I don’t have to worry about a family or a partner when making such decisions. It has its pros and cons. It might look great from the outside, but sometimes it feels lonely. Still, I have the liberty to make mistakes, and mistakes build the best muscles.
The 90% You Don’t See
I said this to somebody I met at an event two weeks ago: "My biggest achievement and my biggest fear of 2025 are the same thing, I don't care what the outcome is." I'm getting good at being boring and doing boring stuff without attachment to results. This is scary because it puts me in a monk-like state where I'm detached from outcomes. If I'm not attached, I won't feel the highs of success or the lows of failure.
When you're constantly focused on the outcome, financial success, validation, whatever, it puts pressure on your daily effort. That pressure creates distraction and inertia.
For example, I kept writing this newsletter for the last last 6 months. I kept creating Instagram content, initially spending hours editing myself, then working with my friend Sanket who edited my videos at a ridiculously low cost. For 4-5 months, nothing happened. My reels would get 1,000 or 2,000 views.
Then one day, when I least expected it, I gained 1000 followers. And that’s when I realized: you just have to keep doing it without thinking about outcomes. My goal was simple: fall in love with the process.
Something on similar note is this video.
This reel sits, bookmarked on my IG and I have sent this to all my friends, you should watch it too. I am gonna replicate this exact reel and post it on my feed as a reminder to myself.
Surrender First
This year, I threw quite a few house parties. I realized I’m a social person, and I need to keep living like that. I stopped thinking, “It’s so much work. People never take initiative. I’m always the one holding friendships together.”
Friendship and love are about surrender. The surrender has to happen through YOU first.
Trust builds through surrender. Yes, there’s risk when you trust and surrender to new people. But that’s how new relationships and stronger friendships form. There’s no other way.
Entering 2026 Without Plan A/B/C
I’m entering 2026 without any plan because I want to build that space for luck, for serendipity, for magic to happen on its own. For the last five years, I’ve planned my new year with workbooks, structures, goal-setting frameworks, three goals, milestones across every quarter, the whole nine yards.
To that method, I say: “Thank you, but with all due respect, not in 2026.” I want to be wild and crazy in my personal life, so I can be structured and organized in my work.
2026 is not about structuring every detail and calendarizing my life. It’s about leaving room for what wants to find me.
A very happy new year. I wish you all a great holiday and a year full of beautiful accidents. Cheers.
Some saved notes from my phone that you should read
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Happy New year!
Always inspiring 🤞