Dear 2017

Dear 2017,

What a year you were. 

You went by so fast that I didn’t have the chance to sit back and reflect at any moment. You flew by without even giving me the chance to say goodbye. 

I have some words I’d like to say and even though you have gone away here is a letter, so I say;

The beginning of the year I was ready for change.

After 2016 I hope you’d be good and full of new beginnings.

2017, you threw everything at me sending me in mixed emotion towards you, it was as if I was on a roller coasters with many highs but also so many lows.

I got the pleasure of a holiday away, towards the north.

What a getaway

I got to experience actual roller coaster!

Oh how fun

Then I got back and the pleasure however was done.

But that was okay as all good things come to an end.

The middle of the year I thought,

Ahh I’m finally over the hump.

Then you hit me with your biggest low of all.

The ending to a relationship...

It was a 

hard

angry 

upsetting

time.

But in the end I feel I came out stronger.

You threw me your worst and I tried to handle it with my best.

By the last few months of you I thought I had gotten through and fought my battles but at the same time I think on the inside of me,

I wanted to scream

yell

tell the world how I feel. 

And I did.

The final month went by so fast.

I got to experience another holiday thanks to you.

Maybe you did it as a favour after all you gave me throughout the year.

Maybe you did it to show me what life really was and how no matter what happens  I need to come out fighting on the other end.

Or maybe you just did it to show me what strong is.

2017, here’s to you.

A year of the highest highs and the lowest lows.

At times I hated you,

At times I loved.

2017, you were a big milestone in my coming of age story and you will not be forgotten.

Farewell to you and although I hate goodbyes here seems to be another.

Goodbye my friend,

Or enemy I do not know.

Goodbye.

Sincerely yours,

Bridie.