Wishes from ZC Asia for 2026: Thank youself.

Today is the last day of 2025.

We always find ourselves learning to say goodbye at such moments—goodbye to a year, to a period of time, to fragments of people and events. 2025 has slipped through our fingers like a receding landscape, while you and I remain travelers forever moving forward.

People tend to express gratitude on this day—to family and friends, to the world, to the gently flowing years. It’s as if time were an old friend, 2025 a figure walking away into the distance, and 2026 a smiling face approaching.

Yet time has never been anyone’s friend. It does not greet, does not bid farewell, does not look back, and does not pause for anyone. Whether it’s the long-gone 2020 or the yet-to-arrive 2030, they are but silent marks on the timeline. It offers no tenderness, only calmly, impartially, carries everything away.

So, if thanks must be given—

Thank you, yourself.

Thank you for the feet that held firm in the storm, and for the smile that lifted in the breeze; thank you for the hands that never let go through the bumps, and for the breath that stayed calm amidst unease.

Time passes, gatherings and partings come and go. No one can walk beside you forever—not the yesterdays gone by, nor the distant tomorrows.

The new year is about to arrive, and I wish you this:

May you have a journey ahead worth pursuing, a kindred spirit to share the path, and may you find your own peace and happiness in this world.

Bid farewell to all that must be left behind, and take with you the self that has never let you down.

Even if, in the end, you are all that remains—live well, move forward, toward the light.