Something new, something exciting, that's what the new year should be. Oddly I found myself laying on my bed feeling rather depressed as I watched the minutes tick away till midnight. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I just didn't want 2022 to end and 2023 to begin.  This past year has been quite long and hard, but yet at the same time the year has flown by, much too fast. I had thought I'd be excited and hopeful at what this new year would bring but I wasn't. I thought about the plans and goals for this past year that never happened, I felt like I had failed, my plans hadn't followed my timeline and all because this past year hadn't been what it was supposed to be. Or had it? Definitely not what I had planned for, nor what I assume anyone would. Last January was where the difficult, painful year started; I didn't want another January yet! It was the beginning of last year. But that was last January and not this January. This time is a new January an...