There is something unusually hypnotic and mildly deceptive about the messaging that surrounds New Years Eve. Messaging that seems to promote a false sense of "hope" that somehow at midnight on December 31st, like magic, EVERYTHING will be different and better and fresh. Perhaps one of the most irritating messages that showed on my Facebook feed last year was a video of Shaquille O'Neill, the basketball superstar, happily "hip bumping" things like anxiety, depression, worries and bills from his perimeter...and along the bottom of the video, big and bold obnoxious letters about "leaving these things behind in 2018". As if all of these problems go away with a hip bump and a stroke of midnight... Now, contrary to popular belief, I am not completely cynical and negative and I do genuinely look forward to the new year. Last year was a traumatically difficult year so the idea of flushing 2018 down the toilet was very appealing...and I was totally wi...
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