goodbye to all that?

I'm not sad to be seeing the end of this year - it's had far too many challenges in it for my liking. Of course, there were good bits - I'm particularly pleased with the way I celebrated my birthday, and for making the effort to arrange to meet up with one of my distant friends. Today I'll be emptying out my jar - lots of scraps of paper on which I jotted some of the highlights and little things I was grateful for throughout the year. Like most new year's resolutions, I started well and then promptly forgot/couldn't be bothered, and only came back to it in bursts. I shall make it my resolution again this year, as it's a really good discipline to focus on all that's good instead of everything that brings us down.
Homework to be done today, then some celebrating later. It's good to celebrate life and loved ones. Of course, time being a social construct and all that, we don't have to wait for a new year to start in order to know that we can begin afresh, or delight in all that we have. But sometimes we need that shove to do so :) Hope you feel motivated to mark all that is good in your life, and resolve to keep working towards all you'd like to be even better :D