hello goodbye

It's the last day of year 2006. The day you look back on the past twelve months and wonder if you have really lived the year to the fullest, or have you instead made it a year of regrets.

Year 2006. Smiles and tears. Accomplishments and failures. New and old. Holding on and letting go. A year I didn't realise is coming to an end so quickly. So what have I made out of this year? Pretty much and nothing much I would say. Pretty much in the sense that I've finally moved on to another phase in life. Turned 16. Met great new people. Got closer to my bros.

Nothing much in the sense that there are some relationships that I failed to improve on (some have gotten even worse), some things I haven't accomplished, and how some situations remain the same. I guess we all have our plus and minuses, and we all grow in some way or another.

Hopefully I'll get to do something different in the new year. A resolution to keep my resolutions. I'll probably write them down somewhere and on 31 dec 2007, look through them again and see what I've actually accomplished.

'Sometimes it's easy to feel like you're the only one in the world who's struggling, who's frustrated, or unsatisfied, or barely getting by. But that feeling's a lie. And if you just hold on, just find the courage to face it all for another day, someone or something will find you and make it all okay. Because we all need a little help sometimes. Someone to help us hear the music in the world, to remind us that it won't always be this way. That someone is out there. And that someone will find you.'

I really hope so.