2026: The year I missed writing a New Year resolution
Summary
After losing her home and extensive personal library to a fire linked to the Gen Z movement in 2025, a political activist and writer reflects on the importance of writing as grounding and resilience, deciding to pause and rebuild her life and work space in 2026.
Key Points
- The author has used writing and New Year resolutions as tools for grounding amid Nepal's diverse political changes.
- Her home and a collection of nearly 800 personal and political books were destroyed in a fire in September 2025.
- This loss included personal documents, workspace, and symbolic items crucial to her writing and reflection process.
- Instead of setting new resolutions in 2026, she chooses to pause, recover, and rebuild both physical and mental spaces for writing and activism.
