Hey, I'm another year older now!

Normally I'd say "Not another year wiser though", but I don't feel that that's the case this year. There's definitely a lot of wisening up this time around: I've learned a lot in just the last few months. I feel like I woke up from a decade of negative emotions and downward spiraling out of control, and into a lot of realizations about the kind of person I was. I'm going to work myself to the bone to fix myself and the mistakes I made in the past, and just be a better person from here on out.

What I can definitely say is, that it's all been an eye-opening experience, and a very sobering one. I know that I've really done a lot of stupid things to tick off a lot of very good people in a variety of ways, broken trust, and...
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