If 2016 was a terrible year because of celebrity deaths or internet turmoil or fear of things that still have yet to happen, then really 2016 wasn’t a terrible year. It was a year like any other. But if 2016 was personally tragic, I’m sorry. The New Year should again be the time to be hopeful things will get better, as things usually do. Just don’t say it’s awful because David Bowie died, a man who was born at the end of World War II, or because that purple magician took too much opiod fentanyl, or because you are afraid of a future that may or may not ever arrive.