Thought Catalog on Instagram: "As the final days of 2025 unfold and 2026 quietly approaches, something shifts beneath the surface. There is a different kind of awareness in the air — one that doesn’t arrive loudly, but insists on being felt. Truths that were once easy to overlook become impossible to ignore. Patterns reveal themselves. Masks loosen. What no longer belongs begins to feel heavier to carry. This is the space between endings and beginnings, where clarity settles in not to punish, bu