I don't put much stock into rabid celebration. Sure, there's a place for it -- getting roaring drunk, telling everyone what their problem is, and dancing on tables is fun from time to time, but I've found it's cheaper and much less self-destructive (especially the next morning) to just Not.
In my daily meditation, I like to enumerate what I've learned today. It helps with perspective. Sometimes it's something fairly mundane, and sometimes its an epiphany of cosmic scale.
Here's a short list of the things I've learned this year, in a mostly reverse order:
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