Editors Note: Nostalgic for 2018

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With the fall term wrapping up and coming to an end, I think many of us are inevitably thinking about how we will be starting the new year.

Although looking to the future and setting new goals and resolutions is important, I think itโ€™s equally as important to take a moment to reflect on the past year and everything it has brought.

It can be easy to throw each year aside, thinking about how last yearโ€™s resolutions still remain unmet or untried. And as such, thinking about starting a โ€œfresh yearโ€ can be a comforting thought.

But for me, thinking about moving into the new year makes me nostalgic for 2018.

On a personal level, I think 2018 has been one of my favourite years so far. Just like every other year, this past year has brought forth itโ€™s challenges and itโ€™s also brought new opportunities.

All of these moments and people have taught me things that have made me better than I was a year ago. And for that, I wouldnโ€™t change a thing about 2018.

Itโ€™s exciting to think back to how things were a year ago and reflect on how things have changed in ways you never expected them to.

To name only a few, this year brought me my job at The Cord. This year has brought me people that I now call my best friends. More recently, this year brought me one of the most important people in my life and itโ€™s primarily because of this person โ€” and all of these things collectively โ€” that I will always look back so fondly on 2018.

I truly think that the unexpected things can be the best things to enter your life. And itโ€™s because of all of these meaningful things that have happened that makes me nostalgic for the past year in the best way.

But itโ€™s also because of these people and these moments that also makes me look hopeful into the new year, Iโ€™m so thankful for all the moments that I have had and Iโ€™m excited to hold those moments close as I move into 2019.

All of these moments and people have taught me things that have made me better than I was a year ago. And for that, I wouldnโ€™t change a thing about 2018.

Iโ€™m excited for the new year and to keep moving forward and to see what the future has in store, but before I do, I think Iโ€™ll hold on to some of my favourite moments of 2018 just a little bit longer.


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