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#YEAR11PROBLEMS

4 January 2016

By Lauren E. White

Optimism in 2016

#YEAR11PROBLEMS is back for the first time in 2016 and there’s a whole new topic we’re discussing. After a relaxing two-week Christmas break, it’s time to get serious and sort out our 2016 mindset.

Optimism is not something that comes naturally to many of us and it comes as no surprise, really, when you are completely enveloped by a world of media, media and more media. The news is constantly surrounding us with negativity and sometimes it feels like there’s nowhere else you can go to escape. It can be suffocating at times – that is what people don’t understand.

Despite the prominent negativity, we shouldn’t just sit here and take it. Instead, we should take a moment every day to recognise something positive, something beautiful and something worthy of recognition. We should also try to look on the bright side this year, especially as we have our GCSEs in just months. Yes, months. But, on the bright side, it means they’re over soon, too!

This column is not a ‘new year, new me’ one. It’s a ‘new year, better me’ one. There is nothing wrong with trying to be better, trying to be more positive because there is a defining time in life when you realise that positivity is a choice and so in 2016, choose positivity. Embrace it, practice it and spread it like a disease. You can also hold me to this…

See you next week!

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