Although January 2016 feels a lifetime away, 2016 has flown by and I have learnt so many things.

I've started of this year with new resolutions and new perspectives of my 'goals' and new things I want to achieve.

For the first few months of last year I managed to keep up a diary which now looking back on makes me realize how much I have changed in these past twelve months, how much I have learnt and how I have different ambitions, interests and things I class as priorities.

Throughout 2016 I had so many regrets on opportunities I had knocked down in the past, the lack of studying I hadn't done when the chance was there and simply regrets on things that were out of my control and still are. This year, I only want to stress about the things that I actually can change and things that will matter in the current moment I am living on the near future.

2016 has been a roller coaster, I have grown closer to friends I thought I would never in a million years talk to after I left school, I have cut people out of my life who I have known longer than any other of my friends, I have got into fights with so many boys, I have cut people out of my life who simply don't make me happy and I have let people in and that is one of my most important achievements.

These past few years, I have gone through a lot of emotional 'teenager' crap and I have kept myself locked in my own body, I put on a front that I expected everyone to accept, I pretended to be the person I thought people wanted me to be and that got me nowhere. Now I have 'let myself out'. I have accepted myself and my imperfections, I speak what I want and sometimes I say too much. Way too much. I have learnt that being myself and being honest is what is going to make me happier and that is what matters the most (cringe).

2016 was a huge year and lots of things happened but this year it is just going to get better, because we are going to make it better.

Here's to making 2017 amazing *raises a mug of hot chocolate*.