Matt Russo in Shanghai

Farewell 2025

2025 was a huge year for growth for me. Perhaps one of the biggest years in my adult life I can remember. I relaunched one of my brands (BNKRPT), I traveled to the other side of the world to China, and I embarked on my own creative pursuit of fulfilling my dreams and, for the first time ever, learned to love the process.

This year I learned that growth is invisible until it’s repeated and then one day you wake up and realize how much you’ve grown. It will be hard at first, then surely enough, with practice, you will see how far you’ve come.

Building this website was a thought years ago; a platform where I can share my ideas and just be nobody but myself. A place I can express my creativity and write my thoughts. Somewhere along my journey this past year, I came to the realization that my life doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else but me.

I can do, go, and be anything or anybody I want to be. With this being my first official post, I want to make it clear that I have written daily in a journal for years. I’m a very emotional and spiritual person. I know I’m not the best writer or the most creative designer.

I’m just ME and this space is for me to be nothing more than that.

Goodbye 2025. Thank you for teaching me how to grow. Thank you for all of the wonderful experiences you gave me. 

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