RE: Sorry. What Year Is It?

The great sage Gracie Abrams once said,

“Made it out alive, but I think I lost it

Said that I was fine, said it from the coffin.”

While the songwriter’s viral bridge is referencing a past relationship, my subconscious connected the lyrics to how I felt about my life throughout 2024.

This past year was hard for me. I am incredibly privileged to say that I mean that in the gentlest way possible. Life kicked me around in a way it really hadn’t before, in that it told me “no.”

And then it told me “no” again.

And again.

And, one more time for the people in the back, again.

I will not fault you if you are now rolling your eyes, beginning to scroll back to the top of the page, or closing it entirely. I am not telling you this because I am trying to garner some weak sympathy points. All in all, I was fine. (This was almost entirely due to Anyone But You. The 2023 film became my emotional support movie, and I clung to it like a life raft. I am not joking when I say there was a week in May or June where I was watching it more than once a day.) I was just a little heartbroken over the hand I had been dealt and the way I felt powerless to fix it.