day 17 - balance.

(full list) - 17 - your highs and lows of this past year.

west end, negril, jamaica.

i think i had a good year. nothing spectacular, but good things happened. i finally earned stamps in my passport - amongst a plethora of domestic travels. i got to watch my brother get married, and celebrate my niece's first birthday. i was hit with the reality of how precious time is and how to not take the little things for granted (ie., your pinky finger) -- without having to go through any of the (real) pain (mental, emotional and/or physical) myself. another year to get to know my parents, and grand-parents - just a little bit more... and another year to try and make things right.

but, i feel as though i've also had another wasted year. if you take out the days one would consider to be spent "productively" -- i'm almost certain i'd be left with about 297 insignificant twenty-four hour periods. whether things are going to be different this time around, i don't know. hopefully i'll have another solid year to find out.