A car’s mileage tells you where it’s been. Your years tell a story too. Make them good miles.

Time passes at the same rate regardless of what is in it, but what accumulates depends entirely on where you take it. Years spent doing things you chose leave a record you can read back, while years spent waiting leave a gap of identical length. The distance is the same and what happened along the way is not.

Ask what this year is adding beyond having occurred. If the answer is very little, pick one thing to put into the remaining months that you would actually mention later. Distance is guaranteed, direction is the part you supply.