What If Today Is the Best Day of Your Life?
Every year on New Year’s Eve, I find myself making a quiet promise: “Well, at least next year can’t be worse than that one.”
And yet—year after year—somehow it is. Or it feels that way. Or it matches it in brand new, creative, emotionally-unhinged ways. 2024 was no exception. On New Year’s Day 2025, I looked at my life and whispered that same old promise to the sky like it owed me a break.
But this year… I had a strange realization.
I’ve been saying that every year.
Every. Single. Year. Like some sad little tradition I never meant to start. And if I keep looking backwards thinking that was the worst, maybe I’m missing the point entirely. Because what if the truth isn’t in the past or the future at all?
What if the best day of my life is right now?
Not because everything is perfect. Not because I’m thriving or glowing or basking in a flawless season. But because it’s the only moment I truly have. The only thing that’s mine, unpromised and wild and alive.
The future is just a million maybes stacked on top of each other. Some of those maybes will break my heart. Some will stitch it back together. But the one thing I can count on is this: right now is real. Right now is happening. Right now might be the brightest thread in the whole tapestry and I don’t even know it yet.
What if, years from now, I look back and realize this was the best moment?
Right here. This version of me. This breath. This light. This messy, imperfect, tender middle.
So maybe today is the best day of your life.
Not because it’s grand or easy or storybook-perfect—but because you’re here. You made it. You’re still trying, still hoping, still reaching for something good.
And that’s more than enough to make it beautiful.
With Love,
Dana & Nicky
