In all honesty this year wasn't entirely bad, but I'm grateful for finally being able to say goodbye to it. I'm happy to be able to keep everything that happened this year in 2016. It was full of up and downs, but I can honestly say I'm much better from it, and so here's my formal goodbye to 2016.

While I'm saying goodbye to this year, I'm also saying goodbye to all the relationships I'm leaving in it. To the many broken friendships that have ended, here's to you. Here's to the friends that didn't stay with me through the entire year. I wish you nothing but the best, but since you said goodbye, I'm saying goodbye as well. I'll forever cherish the memories we've made, and forever hold dear the future we may have planned together. But it's better for me to move on from the toxic relationships I've put up with the past couple of years. May 2017 bring you happiness and new friendships.

Goodbye to the self induced stress I've caused myself the past 5 years. While I'm still working on it, 2016 was the year I realized how hard I was on myself. In the upcoming year I will not focus on maintaining straight a's as I have done in the past, but focus on bettering myself mentally.

Goodbye to the heartache over what may have been, may I find what I'm looking for in 2017.

Goodbye to forgiving to easily. I let people walk all over me in fear of losing them in my life, but may I find the stength in 2017 to stand up for myself.

Goodbye to not making time for my friends. I will strive to better my relationships with my friends for myself and them and make sure they know what their friendship means to me.

Goodbye to low self confidence. I am starting to realize that I am enough.

Goodbye to letting me get my hopes up. May I be ok with letting things play out the way they're mean to.

Hello 2017.