Happy New Year 2025! It was while I was reflecting on the events of 2024 (so.many.of.them.) that I realized I had yet to complete my ‘Lesson On…’ post for 2024, otherwise known as Lessons on 34. As far as birthday celebrations go, my 34th birthday was one of the best ones thus far. It was nearing the end of my first year of grad school and I had two best friends that I was inseparable from and loved, yet I did not want to assume they’d want to spend my birthday with me, for some silly, insecure reason. And so for myself I planned two things for the day: to…