## Colophon title:: 24 Notes for the Year type:: [[clipped-note]] url:: https://tiramisu.bearblog.dev/24-notes/ date:: [[2025-01-01]] tags:: [[&articles]] ## Highlights > You can pick yourself up from a dark place. You can even find work you enjoy doing and get paid for it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvrjqzggytm78a4d4kn9em)) > You can still experience new feelings and depths in love. You now know you can feel pain and hurt and not act on it. Much of being kind is what you choose not to do. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvs2z0t6zx4jepp29xzywf)) > Where you work, and more importantly, who you work with greatly influence your day-to-day happiness. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvs7xdcjx2spryjwz9bfjm)) > You do love them, after all, even if that love is buried under years of resentment. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvspn1j6c4mcxz0s0mkghj)) > There is so much good music out there left in the world you must never stop searching for it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvt0kbvnv9qdmyqdm9f13f)) > Your friends will disappoint you in ways small and big. Let it go. You’re not perfect either. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvsx21dk32qa79qkxq5f81)) > Stop shopping and pining for things. That pair of jeans won’t make you cool. Channel that urge to choose, refine, to learn into reading, writing, and making music instead. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvtam13bg14b10fsbs1f4b)) > Don’t interrupt people when they’re talking. You’re really bad about this. Let them finish. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvtt26dfsa3kp9k2a86var)) > Document more. Be a better warden of your memories, otherwise you’ll lose them. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvv0d7p0s1f570e8na35tr)) > Correct other’s behavior with care, or not at all. Doing things the “right” way isn’t everything, and sometimes it isn’t anything. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvv4n9w34j2aw4hss42yp8)) > If you spent half the time you spend on your iPad reading books ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvvjsjcm808rdeacrwq7fe)) > Don’t assume friendships will be the same as they used to. As much as you like to play the victim, it’s often you who feels differently and withdraws, for reasons beyond your understanding. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvvs9c7wst5xd05dzdgh5k)) > Don’t acquire (notice I didn’t say *buy*) more than absolutely necessary. You can’t afford it and you definitely don’t have space. Also, you’ll probably have to move soon. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvvvzrcwer331x1k9cbe6r)) > If you don’t consciously make space for something in your life, it won’t exist. Exhibit A: language learning, this year. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jggvw2qb6pkaxcz44ntdjrw5))