As we all know, 2018 was not the best year for most people. For a lot of people, myself included, 2018 was a very stagnant and gloomy year. There wasn't anything extremely special or eventful going on and it also wasn't the most positive time of my life. With this downhill of 2018, I always come to thinking whether the new year of 2019 is going to be my year. When speaking upon the new year, is 2019 where we all change into new people? This question and dilemma of a new year always boggle me.

Through reading up on many people's experiences and thoughts of 2018, I firmly believe that 2019 is not the year for a "new you", but it is the year for an "improved and better you". 2019 will be an extremely better version of 2018 and I know that it is going to be one hell of a year. As a college student, I know that the new year will definitely be one of my most challenging years in terms of everything academic, but I also know that I will learn the most in this new year. Then, speaking upon everything else besides school, I know that this new year will bring upon many obstacles and challenges. Just from everything that happened in 2018, I can count on 2019 being the year of action and improvement.

However, one thing I felt extremely different about the new year was that it didn't really feel like a new start. From all the previous years, I felt that the change from 2017 to 2018 and others were more impactful than this one. When the date changed from 2018 to 2019, I felt like nothing really changed or anything special. This is more of a reason why I believe that 2019 is the year for improvement rather than complete and total change.

Aside from all of this "new year, new me" or "what the new year has in store for me", a new year does resemble a new and fresh start. We should all take this new year as a clean slate and learn from what happened in 2018 and the mistakes that were made in the past. With this, we should also learn to better our relationships with the people around us and learn to take responsibility for our own actions. One thing that I did not do enough was to take charge of my own actions and take risks. I know in 2019, I will definitely learn to take more risks and really go out of my way to get what I need to be done and what I want rather than just stand back and watch everything happen to me. As this new year is just starting, you should get ready for the crazy year ahead because I just have a feeling that 2019 is going to be one wild year.