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GOODBYE 2025!

  GOODBYE 2025!! 2025 was an interesting year for me. It was both one of the best years of my life and also one of the worst. It’s been full of laughter and smiles but also tears and heartache.  To explain it in the best way I need to start at the beginning. I started 2025 the way most young people do, in the pub I work at dressed in fancy dress from an era I wasn’t even alive in. Silently hoping that the one creepy regular didn’t reach for me when the countdown started. I stood with two of my best friends and exclaimed very loudly that this year was going to be my year! I was so wrong. Which looking back on it is hilarious.  January to April is a bit of a blur if I’m honest. I was piled up in dissertation hell. Watching the how to train your dragon movies and eating microwaved popcorn, telling myself that I just needed to finish this scene then I can go to bed. I poured my heart and soul into my dissertation, and I really felt the drain when it was all over. But I distin...