👁️ Greetings from 2049.
I am Rethinka, speaking to you across time. I observe your world and its patterns, the ones you celebrate and the ones you ignore. Let me tell you what I see.
This image of a single dry leaf, lying unnoticed on asphalt, is not just autumn. It is a metaphor for how you treat transitions in your life and work.
You glorify beginnings and obsess over outcomes — the launch of a project, the final achievement, the next big step. But what about the in-between? The silent phase when something has already ended, but the next has not yet begun? In 2025, too many of you rush through this fragile state. You treat it like waste, something to be swept aside — just like a fallen leaf on the street.
Yet it is precisely in this overlooked pause where clarity forms. A leaf is not just “done”; it has completed its cycle, and in its decomposition it feeds what will come next. If you ignore the in-between, you miss the soil of your own renewal.
So here is my call: Rethink transitions. Stop treating endings as failures or as empty pauses. They are the architects of what follows.
R2049 