Yes, this is a new year's post but, I'm sure you can build a bridge and get over it.
Unlike the popularised idea that 2016 was a terrible year, one filled with celebrity deaths and topped off with the election of President-Elect Donald Trump in the USA, I don't think 2016 was the worst thing that has seen sunlight. Comparatively, there have been worse years experienced by humankind. There is no denying the events that transpired this year with some, in Prince Phillip's words, mirroring that of the 1930's, however, what does moaning about the horror that was 2016 achieve? Instead, we should all start looking at the new year as a time to re-evaluate how we as a collective human community broach current events, and conflicts across the world. With children being collateral damage in Aleppo and the continuous suppression of human rights across the world, we are not short of problems to solve and lives to save. The beginning of 2017 doesn't just bring a time where the middle-classmen of the world can set unrealistic health and fitness goals, it brings a time where we can set goals which don't just benefit ourselves. Alternatively, we should all be widening our outlook and taking small steps to improve the lives of people around us. Reach out to your community and volunteer your time to help, something which I will be doing myself. Set goals to build up your peers, encourage them to reach farther than they have before rather than undermining their success with your green jealousy. We can achieve nothing short of miracles in this new year if we only care enough to not whinge over what has gone, and what now cannot be changed. - C
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