The year sounded promising, and as we all buckled into a smooth transition with stellar academics, promotions, proposals and marriages, reality trumped in our faces (pun unintended) as always. In the wake of a whole trail of celebrity deaths this year, Dylan won the Nobel prize for literature. I’m currently feeling Zen, so this doesn’t affect me anymore.
Amidst animal extinction, several animals moved to the endangered zone, leaving some hope for lives after all. Planet Earth II sounds too promising, and with Mr. Attenborough’s voice, that’s something I’m definitely buying off my Amazon prime account.
This year has been on the whole very educational. People I know and I’ve collectively experienced heartbreaks, unkept promises, society’s interference in one’s personal decision, living proof of the caste system with its disgusting medusa-like implications, and a disgruntled economy with a million changes in its policies. But all isn’t bad. The Olympics were great, Jon Snow is alive (spoiler alert), I’m living my dreams, and got to meet some of my favourite contemporary authors.
Finally, being there for one another, sharing part of a stranded community at the airports affected by severe fog, waiting to get to wherever we need to has been the fulcrum holding this year together. So long, 2016. Live long in our memory and prosper!
PotatoPen 
Haha! Love it! Happy New Year! 😃
Thank youuuuu. Happy new year ❤
I love your beautifully written “year-in -review”, first paragraph especially resonated and made me smile. Happy New Year!
Thank you so so much 🙂 You’re the best. Happy happy new year! 🙂
“I love you, will you marry me?” – Yam
Hahahaha. Yes!
Tanti Auguri 🙂
Merci! 🙂
Quite a nice way to write a year-end post. Also, thanks for sneaking back here. You’d vanished again.
And that spoiler! You shouldn’t do that, Potato. Think of the poor veggies who haven’t yet got to season 6.
I loved the style of the post, philosophical and yet personal. Happy wala new year!
Haha, you’ll never forgive me for that spoiler huh? Anyway, I’m so glad you dropped by. Happy new year 2017, Bloggeray! May the carbs be with you 🙂
Ha ha ha. That last line was excellent. You should use it as your blog’s tagline. Terrific!
We’ll see you here more often, eh?
Haha indeed, I could use it 😀 Hopefully more often than ever in 2017. New year resolution et al 😛
Resolution, eh? Looks like another bag of potatoes. 😉
Ah they’re just faux potatoes. They’ll pass, don’t worry. Lol
Faux-potatoes, LOL!😝
Haha. 😀
Amen to that! Great end of year post, like all your other posts!
And a very happy new year to you! I wish you a 2017 that’s way better than 2016! And with lots of writing so I can enjoy reading them. 🙂
Aww thank you so much, Anne! Happy happy new year to you and your family 🙂 I’ll try to write here more often, and as always thank you for encouraging me. Hope you have a great year, I’ll see you around here:)
Always my pleasure. 💖 And yes, I know we’re going to have a great year 😀 See you here every week 😉
Haha, alright, we have a deal. See you every week 🙂
Deal. 🙂 See you. Have a great week ahead.
😀 You too! 🙂
Happy new year. Was a simple nice read
Thank you. Happy new year to you too 🙂