Here are the people who defined 2015 for me – at both ends of the spectrumPerhaps the close of every year feels this borderline apocalyptic,and we simply lose perspective each time, but 2015 seems like it has to be the darkest year in my living memory. Between carnage in Nigeria and Paris and Syria and American abortion clinics; Donald Trump and company turning the presidential race into a word salad and xenophobia babble-off; and the planet beginning to cook in its own juices, or an audit of the past year has me considering off-the-grid hermitude. A hollow tree,perhaps. Or a Waterworld-type situation. I’ll drink my own pee as long as there’s no Wi-Fi.
But I also got married this year. That was pretty grand. I wrote a book. And I’ve watched some true revolutionaries battle our garbage fire of a world in ways that own taught me how to be a better human.
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Source: theguardian.com