Happy New Year, everyone. Please continue to support me in 2024. The Paris Olympics are scheduled for this year, but it feels like the Tokyo Olympics just happened recently, so I can't help but think, 'Couldn't it be a little later?' In terms of my personal life, I'm about to enter my third year in the workforce. When I think about how I'm now at the same point as the senior who was a training instructor when I joined, I realize how inexperienced I still am. As I write these tweets on a certain day in December, there are many year-end parties, and this is the time when opportunities to talk with various people increase. At every party, the main topic of conversation seems to be work. When I meet up with friends from my student days, it feels like just 2 or 3 years ago we were talking about our lab or job hunting, but now the subject has changed to our bosses and their quirks, which makes me feel how quickly time passes. Where there's talk of work, there's also talk of private life, and everyone seems interested in romantic relationships. However, the questions I hear at this age have shifted from 'Are you dating anyone?' to 'When are you getting married?' Marriage, which seemed so distant when I was a student, now feels incredibly close. Although I speak as if it's someone else's concern, I actually got married last August. It feels like just the other day I was a student, but without realizing it, the stage of my life has changed. My daily life hasn't changed much since getting married, so I don't really feel it, but when friends and others mention marriage, I'm reminded that I'm now a married person. Until my early twenties, I regarded birthdays as special events marking another step towards adulthood, but now they have become just another ordinary day in the year, and I no longer feel like I'm becoming an adult each time my birthday comes around. However, the fact that I can now feel like I'm growing up several times a year through conversations with those around me is something I find very fulfilling."