Happy New Year everyone. And I mean everyone.

I reiterate, at the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025:

Take care everyone. Never stop caring. Never stop being kind. Hope still exists.

I love you all. Everyone deserves to be loved. Everyone is different, and everyone deserves to exist.

People make mistakes, but no person is a mistake.

New year, new possibilities and opportunities. New chances at happiness. Chances to build a better, kinder, loving world. New year, new actions to take.

Keep reading whatever the hell you want, too.

I refuse to believe that humanity is hopeless; that it is not so determined to hate, for the sake of hating. That people don't love to hate, to the point of becoming monsters with no hearts or brains or consciences. Baseless, consistent hatred is not normal or natural. It cannot last. Hate cannot make lasting change.

But love can.

Love is fulfilling, overflowing. Love is happiness, and peace, both internal and external. We can always do better by loving one another. There is nothing wrong, naïve, foolish or weak about that. It's simple progress; no one can stop us from bettering ourselves, from growing, developing, moving forward, and loving, supporting, and caring for ourselves and others, for our own sakes and for the sake of future generations, who will be the most effected by our wrongheaded, backwards mistakes, caused by ignorance, callousness, hatemongering and fearmongering.

Be better than the monsters who think they hold the power and influence over us.

Say no to hate. Hate can never truly win, or else we won't survive. It is unsustainable. It can't last forever.

Say yes to love, every time. You'll find you'll be happier, healthier, and safer that way.

If you are worried and scared, it's okay.

You are not helpless.

You are not alone.

You are loved.

There is hope. One way or another, things will get better.