Does your bread expire?
My bread has an expiry date. Isn’t it reassuring knowing that food has a very clear deadline? You know when it stops being fresh. Nobody looks at a loaf six months later and asks why it isn't performing like it used to and tells it that last year it was softer, or that it should really be doing more by now. We accept that bread changes. For some reason, I find that much easier to accept about bread than I do about myself. 2025 and 2026 feel like two completely different years to me. 2025 was probably the closest I've felt to being at my peak. I kept surprising myself. I wrote a lot, started things and actually finished them. There always seemed to be something happening, something I could point at and think, I DID THAT. I don't think I realised how quickly those things would stop feeling like achievements and start feeling like expectations. Then 2026 happened. I moved to a different state for college, which sounds much more exciting when you say it in one sentence. In rea...