Sometimes it's crazy looking back on things and seeing how far you've come. How a new year floods you with new memories and people drifting in and out of your life like a never ending revolving door. You make new memories, new friends, grow new habits, & even repeat your bad ones. Your routine may in fact be bland as ever, unless you actually followed through with the "new year, new me" bull you try to implement in your life every upcoming new year. And here comes that time again, each holiday season you reflect upon the new year and what it had brought to you and you assume your year may have in fact been worse than the last. We spend so much time self reflecting the negative energy that has flooded our lives and forget all of the beautiful moments that have shined their way through. Take a moment and think through the dark cloud floating above your head and reflect on the laughter. You can't sit there and tell me you didn't laugh one single time this year. That's all it takes honestly, one laugh to overcome a dark time. One sliver of happiness is enough to let your heart remember you aren't stone cold after all, the year didn't in fact get the best of you. It may not have been cut out to how it's supposed to be, but that's what life's all about you cannot live without enough sadness. Because, without sadness as humans we cannot appreciate happiness. Without enough pain, one cannot know love.

So this next year, I wish you enough.

Enough sadness. To soften your wild heart.

Enough laughter. To thunder through your veins.

Enough sorrow. To feel deep within your bones.

And

Enough love. To help you remember what it feels like to live.

& most of all...

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you have.