Seeing out the Old Year

When you reflect on 2022, acknowledge the losses and the sadness, 
the disappointments and the pain, 
but also appreciate the good moments, 
the time spent with people - family gatherings, dinners with friends, chance encounters with strangers , 
small triumphs - finishing a difficult task, thinking before you replied, not eating that second slab of chocolate.
We have to accept 2022 for what it was, with its joys and its sorrows, before we can enter 2023.