2016, a year where so much happened and not for the better. At the end of every year people say "next year everything will be amazing!" "This year things will change, things will be better." 2016, a year where men were shot in a night club because of their sexuality, where a real estate agent turned reality t.v star was chosen to be our countries commander in chief and another deadly disease surfaced the planet this time affecting hundreds, if not thousands, of infants. It has been a year filled with more sad moments than I can count with both my hands and feet. I'm having a hard time believing that what people say about a new year is true.

If you have a drink in front you, cheers. Here's to hoping that 2017 will not be as awful as many people believe it will be. Here's to finally accomplishing a new years resolution that you've been meaning to accomplish for years but usually give up, stop trying at the end of the month. Cheers to all the women and men who are fighting other nations just so we, the citizens of America can live to celebrate another year. Being a part of the first american generation in my family i've been told my entire life that I should be grateful to have been born in the land of the free, where all my hopes and aspirations can come true if I try hard enough. I'm having a hard believing that my hopes and aspirations will come true in the future because the future seems kind of dull to me. I'm not saying that 2017 will be the year where everything comes crumbling down, but I do have this gut feeling that it could be a stepping stone to the beginning of a not so great end.

Nevertheless, I don't want to leave this year on a sad note. I want to leave it with hope that my gut feeling is wrong and that 2017 will be a wonderful year filled with great surprises and moments that people will celebrate instead of mourn over. Maybe 2017 will be the year where Trump actually starts doing something good for our nation, or someone will create a device that will help the world with a problem we've been trying to fix for several years. On a more fun but superficial note, media might introduce the world to the coolest celebrity ever and everyone can agree that they are awesome and deserve great things to happen to them. I truly hope that this time next year I write an article that speaks great lengths about "how awesome things are" and how "next year everything will be amazing!" Maybe I wont even have to say "this year things will change, things will be better," because things did change and things did get better.