Goodbye 2012, and Greetings '13
I am sat in the dark of my room at 7 AM, on New Year's Eve's Eve, listening to renditions of Auld Lang Syne on YouTube. New Year's is my favourite holiday of the year, above Christmas and all the others, because it actually symbolises something for me. I mean, naturally the flipping of man-made calenders doesn't literally represent some important change in the fabric of the universe, but it represents an important change in our man-made universe, which is just as, if not more, important. It's an unusual time of ubiquitous introspection, amongst even those who aren't usually into that sort of thing. People think about how their year went and what they will do to better themselves in the next year. People often take it trivially, but still, it's better than nothing, and I find it important. So, having said that, here's my New Year's moment of self-reflection and forward-looking: 2012 was certainly a dynamic year for me, but it was pretty terrible emo...