End of Year Reflections
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pink
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Getcha new dockers.
HumpDayHoratio
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Dude, let that shit go. Nothing you can do about most of it anyway, so live your life and don’t worry about what you can’t control. Once I figured it out, my life is so much more relaxed.
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I wasn't really complaining about "that shit", and I know that a single individual can't control it. But every week I work with colleagues on legal and political efforts to make things better.
It shifts the focus away from my personal aches and pains and toward the welfare of my grandchildren.
thør
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Pretty much a ditto for me, but I'd add bigotry and entitlement to the list.
Good additions
terriblesecrets
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Amen to that
neci
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someone has to worry about the big stuff. i hope you are able to take good care of you in the new year.
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congratulations! i hope you enjoy the transition into this new phase in your life. i’ve always enjoyed traveling. hoping to do a bit the end of 24.
neci
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i agree with pink. new dockers.
thør
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You’ll be good. Just be patient.
Addressing the big stuff has put me in contact with people who know how to love.
spacekowboy
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Ain't nothing wrong with alotta ass.
juttjaw
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I am hoping 2024 will be another, uneventful and boring year. Just normal is what I want. I'm done with horrible events happening every few weeks. I want my kids to be safe and supported, I want my siblings to stay alive and not explode, I want to be quiet. I like quiet. Somehow, I know there will be disruption. I'm OK having little fires to manage. Just please, PLEASE, not the whole god damn city.
butters
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this year seems to have passed swiftly, and yet H's mum's 100th feels like ages ago 
on a personal level? all the bustle of that; the land stuff (filling in and arranging the repositioning of drainage channels etc...); the sudden deterioration and death of my s-i-l when she'd been doing so well as to be in remission before it came back with a vengeance; the excessive heat and lack of rain, the garden doing partly brilliantly & partly sucked dry or sun-burned; a messed up knee; chicken dramas and delights... all these things and more lend themselves to that sense. A quiet christmas was just what the doctor ordered. As to the big stuff, politically and warfare, fires, flooding, the struggles of people throughout the world as they attempt to survive and, in some cases battle, in others flee the forces of nature and man... sigh. We have to try and celebrate the good and the normal, the quiet and peaceful, the kindness and joys we find in life even when we know others are hurting.
i look back and enjoy the things i've learned, accepting with each growth of knowledge how much more i'll never know: one person cannot know everything, but the more one knows the more one knows we don't know jack shit about far more than we realised
Happy 2024 to you all
on a personal level? all the bustle of that; the land stuff (filling in and arranging the repositioning of drainage channels etc...); the sudden deterioration and death of my s-i-l when she'd been doing so well as to be in remission before it came back with a vengeance; the excessive heat and lack of rain, the garden doing partly brilliantly & partly sucked dry or sun-burned; a messed up knee; chicken dramas and delights... all these things and more lend themselves to that sense. A quiet christmas was just what the doctor ordered. As to the big stuff, politically and warfare, fires, flooding, the struggles of people throughout the world as they attempt to survive and, in some cases battle, in others flee the forces of nature and man... sigh. We have to try and celebrate the good and the normal, the quiet and peaceful, the kindness and joys we find in life even when we know others are hurting.
i look back and enjoy the things i've learned, accepting with each growth of knowledge how much more i'll never know: one person cannot know everything, but the more one knows the more one knows we don't know jack shit about far more than we realised
Happy 2024 to you all
TrailerHitch
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I like big butts and I cannot lie!!
TrailerHitch
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I've had better years than 2023, I've also had worse. 2024 could go either way, although the way this year is ending I don't see it being a better year by any stretch at all.
Debbie
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Happy new year to you all from New Zealand. 
It is just words but I really mean it when I write this.
I hope 2024 is a good year for you all and that you are ok.
If life seems to be kicking your butt I hope you will be surrounded by family friends a community and good people.
2023 was a horrible year. Losing bigred has left a big gap in all our lives.
I'm entering 2024 with a mindset of it is a different year without him and I know he would want me to try and do what I need to to be ok.
I am very grateful for family who have helped so much in anyway they can.
Also thankful that grief hasn't changed who I am and my outlook on life.
Having bigrednz in my life was like having the best ice cream sundae ever and he was the cherry on top.
It is just words but I really mean it when I write this.
I hope 2024 is a good year for you all and that you are ok.
If life seems to be kicking your butt I hope you will be surrounded by family friends a community and good people.
2023 was a horrible year. Losing bigred has left a big gap in all our lives.
I'm entering 2024 with a mindset of it is a different year without him and I know he would want me to try and do what I need to to be ok.
I am very grateful for family who have helped so much in anyway they can.
Also thankful that grief hasn't changed who I am and my outlook on life.
Having bigrednz in my life was like having the best ice cream sundae ever and he was the cherry on top.
