2025 reflections
2025 is almost over, and I’m finally finding some time to reflect on the year that has passed.
2025 marks the year that I quit continuing a passion I thought I wanted to pursue—a career that would have been seen as “respectable” and “professional.” Whatever that means.
It is the year that I went fully self-employed. The year that I decided that what was once my passionate hobby would now be my full-time income endeavour. I stepped bravely into in-person swerk as an additional income so I could afford to live in London.
I also found the Revolutionary Communists—or rather, they found me.
At the end of 2024, I vowed to myself that I would find more community, find a way that I could still contribute to societal change, take on opportunities that came my way, and take my chances at working in the club.
In hindsight, I feel like I managed to do all of the above. Although, I do think my community-building is the most lacking skill. I’ve always been a bit of a loner, and it’s something I want to continue to work through, because only in community do we feel whole as human beings.
So as I sit here writing this, I’m feeling grateful for all the souls that have helped me feel whole this year. First are all the people in my immediate circle who believe in me, egg me on in all my adventures, and uplift me when I don’t believe in myself. Especially my partner, who puts up with my shit on a daily basis.
I’m also grateful to all my students. 2025 marks the year that I have worked with the most people—some new, and many who have been with me through all the studios over the years. My heart feels full when I think about the amount of trust that is put into my coaching by my students. To those who have chosen to work with me throughout 2025: you have helped me develop myself as a coach and also, quite literally, put food on the table.
As a side quest of 2025, I’m eternally grateful to the Revolutionary Communists. They pulled me out of a very deep disillusionment with the state of the world. For the first time in my life, the issues that have always bothered me were explained and connected together. The active encouragement to dedicate myself to political, historical, and economic education has armed me with the skills to dissect the world and boil it back to the real cause: the class struggle. Capitalism.
I feel more hopeful than ever that we, collectively as human beings, can use our power, technology, and resources to live in a society based on need and not profit. I have all my comrades to thank for this. I earn as much as I can to fund the growth of this group, and I dedicate as much time as I can fathom to learning and contributing to the change of our collective material reality.
This work has really helped me prioritise most of everything I do. I earn money to make a living, but I also know that my money can go somewhere that will actually help us change the reality we live in.
I’ve spent years being enraged by the system. Enraged by the atrocities of this world. Enraged by deep systemic inequalities. Enraged that we’re travelling 683,844,893 miles per hour into environmental collapse, and yet the government says, “the world is not yet ready for change.” Enraged that they have the cheek to say this while earning premium wages and receiving pay-offs from corporate monopolies.
I finally feel like I can understand this rage and use it—to get myself and other workers organised. We can collectively stand up to the bosses, the state, and the elite class for a genuinely better world, where we can free ourselves from the deep struggle of survival that most of us face.
I won’t go more into this for now. I’m just reflecting on what actually felt important to me in 2025.
At the end of the day, it is the people I’ve met and been inspired by who have been the real highlights of my year. From students to loved ones, from strangers to friends and comrades. It is the conversations I’ve had and the ways of communicating I’m learning—the different language techniques to put your point or sale across.
2025 has been a year of language and communication. How to use language to communicate points across to a very wide range of people, across a very wide range of subjects and contexts.
The year is almost over. I feel grateful for the year that has passed and excited for the year ahead—the last full year of my 20s. Another year of personal development and growth. Thank you to everyone who was directly and indirectly, for a short time or a long time, part of my 2025. I hope I see many of you again and meet even more new humans in 2026.
To another year of learning and communicating.
With the most amount of Love,
Eva W.
