TOP 5 things I learned in 2017

1. Facebook can be like a conveyor belt carrying your emotional baggage round and round in your life and make it almost impossible to 'move on' in the real sense - shed old baggage, and start anew.

2. To start anew( albeit for the Nth time), you need to do what it takes - be it defriending people on FB, expressing old hurt through email, 'acting out', lying in bed all day, or fighting with everyone you know. Just trust in the process and express your authentic self.

3. Sometimes, you imbibe so much psychology that you control your responses to people based on your knowledge of psychology( how that person will interpret your response and so on). So you fail to express yourself and this can lead to emotional rotting, which is unhealthy.

4. Speak UP! Then and there if possible, but even if you feel you have things left unsaid about events that happened 20 years ago, say them! Life is short.

5. Trust that there will be opportunities for a course correction( be it in your career, personal life, or friendships) even if you feel you have used up all your opportunities.

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