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An Open Letter to 2017

Here's to all the good that 2017 can bring.

Madison Rhodes
Dec 26, 2016
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Dear 2017,

As you know, 2016 was a rough year for a lot of us. It was personally a year that I would like to forget even happened. I lost myself and ran into way too many road bumps to count. Despite what I've been through, I am going into this year hoping for the best, I am more than all ready to leave 2016 in the dust and focus on this new year. There are only a few things that I ask to be provided in 2017.

Please bring me clarity. 2016 was the year of confusion, the year of heartbreak, the year of rock bottom. I wish to have clarity for the things that I cannot change, and the things that I need to look at from a new perspective. There are people who deserve my forgiveness and there are people who I need to apologize to.

Please bring me happiness. I know that happiness is a cycle and that I am the only one who can make myself happy, but I have been unhappy for most of 2016 because of life road blocks, but I am ready to stop letting everything ruin my happiness. I hope you bring me the ability to see the bright side in every situation, no matter how difficult it is.

Please bring me opportunity. Whether that be opportunity to improve, the opportunity to change, or the opportunity to try something new. I want to use the next 12 months to explore my passions and bravely walk through any door that opens in front of me.

Please bring me peace. There are things that happened in 2016 that still rattle me to the core every single day. I want to make peace with my choices and the complications I have faced. Every heartbreak and every mistake has had a huge impact on me and I've been unable to just accept things the way they are. I hope to be able to make peace with all of the hurt I've gone through and learn from my mistakes.

Please bring me love. I don't want love in the form of a significant other, I want self love. I want to be able to look myself in the mirror and say, "you are strong, brilliant, and I love you," I have not been able to even mutter those words in so long and I am ready for 2017 to start my path towards self love. I want you to bring me so much love that I project it on to those around me and I become a positive force.

Sincerely,

A hopeful stranger

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