2025 Year-End Summary — Inward Growth

Since becoming distinctly self-aware, never have I clashed so intensely with the world and with myself as I have this year—yet the result is strangely magical: I have become even more peaceful. Many subconscious reactions, many habitual practices, when excavated inward, can be traced back to such ancient reinforcement chains. Just as Shi Tiesheng said—the bullet fired in youth strikes squarely between the brows at this age. Thus, whether forced or spontaneous, this year has become an inevitable journey of inward growth—observing and tracing the subtle origins of my emotional shifts, as in the