Creating My 2025 Roadmap: A Year of Development, Obstacles, and Aspirations
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Compiling 2025. The Leap into a New Life Does the feeling of joy and exitement mixed with stress and anxiety sound familiar to you? When you seem “chill” and maybe even confident, but the truth is that your heart is about to break your ribs from the inside? That’s where I am right now. I am going to Spain in a few days. While residing in Ukraine, I have been studying Spanish for the past six months. It is a key to a new life, not just a new language to learn. I find myself dreaming in fragments of Spanish, fumbling with conjugations and enjoying every error. I am conversing with language partners, watching Spanish Netflix series, and fumbling through discussions that make me laugh at myself in between commits and deployments. Professional Development I have fallen head over heels for front-end development. Not the flawless, ideal sort, but the messy, lovely kind where you can not stop working on React components until three in the morning. This year, I want to create things that bring joy to others, like a landing page that dances with interaction or a blog that feels like a warm cup of coffee. And I hope to build my own npm library, somewhere between the lines of code, like a small footprint in the vast digital sand. The route ahead for freelancers is a convoluted mountain road rather than a straight highway. Depending on the day, I may be constructing in Webflow, translating across universes, or simply trying to improve the appearance of my Upwork profile. Similar to my ADHD brain, it is both chaotic and flawless. Embracing Growth and Independence Regarding mental health, I am finally going to accept assistance this year. Finding a psychiatrist who understands me and creating a life that works with my brain rather than against it are two things that Spain is all about, in addition to the sunshine and siestas. When coding becomes too demanding, I might discover new hobbies or play my guitar on warm evenings. The idea of being completely financially independent makes me feel good, but it is not just about the money. It is about creating something wholly original, about waking up with a sense of excitement to create, and about finally being able to say "yes" to the projects that bring me joy. Is it scary? Hell yes. Some days I wonder if I'm crazy for dreaming this big. But then I write another line of code, learn another Spanish phrase, help another client bring their vision to life, and I think – maybe being a little crazy is exactly what I need to be. All that being said Here's to 2025: to beautiful errors and untidy code, to npm packages and Spanish sunsets, to discovering my people and, perhaps, to discovering myself in the process. Credits: Photo by Nellia Kurme on Unsplash
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Compiling 2025.
The Leap into a New Life
Does the feeling of joy and exitement mixed with stress and anxiety sound familiar to you? When you seem “chill” and maybe even confident, but the truth is that your heart is about to break your ribs from the inside? That’s where I am right now.
I am going to Spain in a few days. While residing in Ukraine, I have been studying Spanish for the past six months. It is a key to a new life, not just a new language to learn. I find myself dreaming in fragments of Spanish, fumbling with conjugations and enjoying every error. I am conversing with language partners, watching Spanish Netflix series, and fumbling through discussions that make me laugh at myself in between commits and deployments.
Professional Development
I have fallen head over heels for front-end development. Not the flawless, ideal sort, but the messy, lovely kind where you can not stop working on React components until three in the morning. This year, I want to create things that bring joy to others, like a landing page that dances with interaction or a blog that feels like a warm cup of coffee. And I hope to build my own npm library, somewhere between the lines of code, like a small footprint in the vast digital sand.
The route ahead for freelancers is a convoluted mountain road rather than a straight highway. Depending on the day, I may be constructing in Webflow, translating across universes, or simply trying to improve the appearance of my Upwork profile. Similar to my ADHD brain, it is both chaotic and flawless.
Embracing Growth and Independence
Regarding mental health, I am finally going to accept assistance this year. Finding a psychiatrist who understands me and creating a life that works with my brain rather than against it are two things that Spain is all about, in addition to the sunshine and siestas. When coding becomes too demanding, I might discover new hobbies or play my guitar on warm evenings.
The idea of being completely financially independent makes me feel good, but it is not just about the money. It is about creating something wholly original, about waking up with a sense of excitement to create, and about finally being able to say "yes" to the projects that bring me joy.
Is it scary? Hell yes. Some days I wonder if I'm crazy for dreaming this big. But then I write another line of code, learn another Spanish phrase, help another client bring their vision to life, and I think – maybe being a little crazy is exactly what I need to be.
All that being said
Here's to 2025: to beautiful errors and untidy code, to npm packages and Spanish sunsets, to discovering my people and, perhaps, to discovering myself in the process.
Credits: Photo by Nellia Kurme on Unsplash
