2017 won’t be perfect to stereotypical expectations by any means. 2017 may or may not be the year you fall in love with the one you’re supposed to be with forever. It may or may not be the year that you win the lottery, or the year that you receive that big pay raise and promotion you’ve been working towards for the past few years in your career. 2017 may be the year of losses. If it is remember when you lose something there is always something to gain. When one door shuts another door opens, right?

I don’t have any hopes or goals for 2017. In the past I’ve made new year’s resolutions. Some have been accomplished but even more have been forgotten. This year isn’t about the past. It isn’t about the mistakes I’ve made or the things I have accomplished. This year isn’t about the future either. I’m not getting my hopes up for 2017. Twelve months and four seasons will for sure happen in 2017. There is no denying the facts. However, what will occur in those twelve months and four seasons have yet to occur. I don’t intend on worrying about what will happen during them, because i'm excited for them. I’m not thinking about who or what I will be a year from now in 2018 because of the mistakes i've made and the things i have accomplished.

2017 is now. It’s not the past and it’s not the future. We can’t time travel and relive the best moments that occurred last year or go back and redo the mistakes we've made to make everything right again. I don’t have regrets from last year, only lessons. Lessons I will hold onto as reference in my everyday life. Not lessons I will dwell on and carry with me as weight on my shoulders. Lessons that will help me as I take on 2017 day by day. The lessons I learned because of the choices I made and not the lessons I learned from anyone else, because every decision I’ve ever made has been because it’s what I chose.

I’m not searching for anything in 2017, and neither should you. If you waste days searching, you could miss the best moments 2017 has to offer being preoccupied with what you want. Bad things will happen in 2017. It’s inevitable. How you deal with it is up to you. Forgive when an honest mistake occurs, forget when the mistake occurs repeatedly. Every year is as precious as every day we are given to live, and 2017 is no different. With that being said, love your loved ones a little more, because not everyone will make it to 2018.

2017 is your year just as much as it’s my year. Enjoy living in the moment in 2017. Once again, 2017 is now. It's not yesterday, not last week, not tomorrow, and not two months from now. Happy New Year was counting down the seconds until midnight on December 31, 2016. Today its happy now year.