Winter does not ask you to be productive. It asks you to endure — the cold, the dark, the stillness. And in that endurance, something quiets inside you. The frantic energy of summer and autumn gives way to a slower, deeper rhythm. Gaman in winter means trusting that the season will turn, and that the waiting is not wasted time but preparation.

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