Hi
Thinking out loud here :D
It's
been awhile, so I thought I'd do one last blog post before the year
is out, I want to to re-cap on some things and look to next year.
In
all honesty I don't really know where to begin, this year has been a
trying and testing year, I feel more so than any other. Things have
happened that shouldn't have, things happened that couldn't be
helped. It came with highs and plenty of lows from the deaths of many
celebrities both young and old, and plenty of natural disasters
including with some here in New Zealand. It was a year that truly
pushed many of us to places we never knew we could go. I think the
best way is to start with the not so great events and end with the happier events of the year.
Some
of the biggest surprises that sadly happened were the numerous deaths
starting with (Star man) David Bowie, Alan Rickman (who will for ever
be known as Snape to so many of us,) Sir Terry Wogan (who with out
Children in need will not be the same in the UK,) Paul Daniels,
Ronnie Corbett (one of the funniest comedians there ever could have
been, the two ronnies can now be together again,) Victoria woods
(another great comedian,) Prince, (for everyone who is on YouTube a
talented singer who) Christina Grimmie, Carrie Fisher and her Mother
Debbie Reynolds to name just a small portion of the many talented and loved people we lost in 2016. all of whom will be greatly missed,
with the celebrities passing which felt like one a week at some
stages in the year there has been plenty of things happening
politically with the Bexit, the failed military coup in Turkey, the
American election which I honestly think no one was ready for but is
going to make 2017 interesting, our prime minister resigned and all
the tempted bombs and the bombs that killed thousands of people
including the Orlando shooting which started the love is love is love
campaign which many musicals and people around the world got involved
with showing the LGBT community that they weren't alone.
With
the world already wanting 2016 to be over we had the zika virus and
mother nature to contend with, we have had shakes some one after
another starting here in New Zealand and continuing to Japan,
central America and the most recent one in Chile, these of course
came with their own problems tsunami warnings, places left stranded and sadly people dieing. All this has only shown that we as a whole
are pretty strong to be able to keep going.
Its
clear there have been some rough times but with those times we have
also had some pretty spectacular times to help us through the year.
Leonardo Dicaprio won his first Oscar that for him had been long
awaited, the 2016 Rio olympics that showed what hard work and
dedication can do, there was the first ever flower grown in space
which honestly is amazing, bit random but someone bought a piece of
John Lennon's hair, we had more from J K Rowling with the wizarding
world giving us Harry Potter and the cursed child, Fantastic Beasts
and where to find them revealing there will be another four films to
follow and a musical that very quickly became one of my favourites
this year Hamilton managed to get 3.3million in a week on Broadway
setting a new record.
This
year has been one to take with a pinch of salt I hope next year
treats us all kinder and gives us a few more things to look forward
to, I hope what ever you do this New Years Eve you have fun stay safe
and look forward to 2017.
Happy
New year
love always Thinking out loud xx :D
