Let me make a confession: I can't resist those social media word puzzles that flood our feeds every New Year. You know the ones—"The first five words you spot will be your 2025 mantra!" Despite knowing they're designed to give everyone positive results, I find myself eagerly scanning the jumbled letters, convinced that whatever words I find are somehow meant specifically for me.
This year, "Alignment" showed up not once, but twice in different puzzles. To be honest, I don't even really know what that word means in the context of my life. Is it about things falling into place? Is it about making deliberate choices? I'm not sure. But there's something intriguing about its repeated appearance.
Looking back at where I stood at the end of 2024, I remember describing myself as being at a crossroads - overwhelmed, questioning my progress, yet carrying an inexplicable sense of hope. Here I am, juggling entrepreneurship and software engineering aspirations, still trying to figure out how it all fits together.
Maybe when I read this at the end of 2025, I'll have a clearer understanding of why alignment found me twice in those word puzzles. Maybe I'll look back and say "Aha! So that's what it meant!" Or maybe I'll still be figuring it out, and that's okay too.
For now, I'm holding onto this mysterious word that twice found its way to me. In the grand scheme of things, perhaps believing in a word puzzle's magic isn't so naive - sometimes we need these small signs to keep hope alive, even if we don't quite understand them yet. Here's to 2025, and to hopefully discovering what alignment means for me along the way.