This is the year for smiling. This is the year for achieving. This is the year where every amazing today follows an amazing yesterday and an even more amazing tomorrow.

This is the year for questioning, not just the world and everything in it, but ourselves. It’s the year for taking nothing for granted, for giving as much as we get, for staring down all the sources of grief and hurt, flashing a grin and asking what’s next.

This is the year where every moment we experience is the accumulated result of every moment we’ve ever lived, laughed, loved, bled, hurt and wept, finding its expression in the right here of now. This is the year where the only constant is change, and we can find certain adventure in every uncertainty.

This is our year, yours and mine.