As we leave 2024 and enter a new year of uncertainty, I admit that I’m more nervous about this year than I have been for many others, fearing about whether anything will be good again. I don’t know what shall transpire within the year and beyond, but I don’t want to make this journal a sad one. I do want to organize my thoughts about the new year and predictions in an upcoming journal. For now though, I hope everyone will have a healthy new year, and that everyone will be able to achieve many things no matter how big or how small those accomplishments are.

I also want to say how incredibly lucky I am to be here, and how grateful I am that I have my friends and family. And that I am part of amazing communities online that I genuinely care about and I try my best to contribute to. Despite my deep frustrations with this world I do believe fully that it’s full of great people and great beauty, that there’s hope within us and that bitter divisive rage shall not consume it. My greatest wish for this year and beyond is that we live, and that whatever this new year throws at us will not crush us nor our communities, that we may enjoy living life to the fullest and not let anything get in the way.

This year my biggest goal for my own life is to try and live again too, and not let the fear of the unknown get to me as well as past regrets control me. To this I hope that I can achieve it, despite how difficult for me this is. I hope to create a lot of things in this coming year, and I hope you all will enjoy what I will make too.

I cherish you all. And I wish you all a happy new year.