A lot can happen in a year

...And I'm regretting so, so much of this year. I guess I didn't waste it. Sometimes I wanted to, and sometimes it was excruciating, but I've learnt so much. I was naive. I still am, but not so much. In many ways, 2009 was a very important year for me and I'm almost glad it happened the way it did. Still, here's hoping that 2010 will be nothing like it.
Now, I'm going to be nostalgic about this time last year, when I was reflecting on what was probably the best year of my life so far. I remember watching Big Fish on New Year's Eve and feeling very excited about the New Year. My head full of aspirations for 2009. I wasn't unhappy. I didn't have any regrets. I was just hopeful for the sake of being optimistic. I honestly couldn't comprehend how meeting one person would uproot the Earth from under my feet the way it did.
I also remember listening to this song a lot. It was on rotation at the time. It was pretty much all I would listen to, and yet I only just remembered it. And this fills me with hope that you will be just as easy to forget.

Gregory and the Hawk- Boats and Birds