“Beware the Ides of March.” A banger line we’ve been repeating for more than 400 years. Not because we collectively read Plutarch in our spare time, but because a playwright took a momentous event, zhuzhed it up, and the rest is history.  "Et tu, Brute?" also made up. No one knows Caesar's actual last words, but most accounts say he pulled his toga over his head and said nothing. Just the dizzying, devastating grief of a man murdered by someone he loved. I made that up, too.

TLDR: That "back at zero" feeling? It's lying to you. Everything you've lived, learned, survived, and outgrown is coming with you. You're not starting over, you're starting from experience. There's a difference. Use it.

Should creates an illusion of autonomy until we explore why we feel in conflict with it. This is where curiosity becomes powerful.

TL;DR: possibility is where life actually happens - make the choice. We often mistake running simulations for making decisions. We play out every what-if: What if it doesn’t work? What if I fail? What if I look silly? What if I can’t do it? You don’t decide your way forward by rehearsing outcomes. Clarity doesn’t come before the decision. It comes because of it. There’s a fork in the road most of us face again and again. One path is "what if." It feels responsible, and it giv