A Look Back on the Year We Don't Want to Talk About
To be honest my first draft of this started with “F*CK 2016!”. When I was thinking about my annual end of the year review back in December, I really had nothing good to say about 2016. It was shittastic, but I couldn’t post that because it would be dismissing all the good things that happened throughout the year. So, I’m not going to write about the doom and gloom, nor am I going to write about happy memories (those are now preserved in my journal for future archaeologists to read). Instead, I want to share with you the (heavy) lessons I have learned from surviving 2016. Here we go: - Humanize People- This is the only political comment I will allow myself to include here. We as a community have been divided by our political beliefs. 2016 was a year of “us vs. them” and it broke us. It broke us bad. Don’t get me wrong, I love the fact that people didn’t remain apathetic to the political climate last year. We were active AF! But we allowed our anger to divide us. We