2017...

Good riddance to you, 2017.

You brought with you deeper sorrows than I've ever felt.  You took away people and things that brought great joy into my life.  You held all the most terrible moments in your hands and seemed to rain them down on my head. You turned my hairs gray.  You took away any sense of "normal" I might have felt before. 

And now, in this beginning of 2018, I'm still left trying to piece myself together from the havoc you created.

Goodbye, 2017.  I won't ever forget you.

I'm still recovering from you, but I have a sneaking suspicion I'll look back on you and see how all your chaos and pain changed me. 

I think you pushed me down the path a little faster than I wanted to go.

And one day, I hope I'll thank you for that.