What do you see when you look back over the past year??

Sadly, all I can see are the pain and torment that my mother has put me through the whole year because of my girlfriend. This theme dominated my 2008, ultimately leading to my decision to stand up for my own decisions without caving in to the pressure from other people.

I've been working on being happier, bringing more beauty into my life, being more clear about what I will and won't tolerate and just basically deciding what the heck I want to be doing with myself. I do know that in a year I want it to be much better and I am hopefully moving in that direction.

When I look back over the past year, I'm pretty proud of myself. I kept a job for most of the year, and I've done good in paying back debt. I guess I also had a pretty good creative year. I wrote several new books, I made new friends, I joined writing groups; I learned that most able-bodied people are not destructive, which is a big deal for me. When I was in college, I knew that, but I forgot.

When I look back over the last year, I see tremendous change actually! I'm in a new role employment wise, my financial situation has improved dramatically, I'm making plans to return to my home country, my international travel schedule has decreased considerably..... And the best thing of all is that my marriage is wonderful as always; and I know things are going to get even better still!

My life is about the same but I'm working on some things (related to inner happiness and such).

when I look back over the pas year,I saw a loser of myself.I've done nothing,the way ahead is all darkness. I fell so frustrated and no direction with my career.the new year is coming soon and I only hope that next year will be my year!

I saw lots of doors of windows being closed. Our project have to end abruptly and much earlier than expected so it destroys lots of plans and even financial schedules. It's a year where I submitted almost 50 resumes and the most I got is just the final interview but no job at all. I can call it as a crazy year for that's when I started to learn of making money online, crazily joined any site referred by anyone and ended up scammed and poorer. It is really a year of closed opportunities and I hope that this year, a door or even just a window will open up for me.

I definitely changed. I grew A LOT and a lot of "what was I thinking" going on in my head now. It is totally different from last year... I would have never imagined the year to end up like this.. but I'm glad.