Once the news surfaced that Carrie Fisher was having a health crisis on December 23, on an airplane, and tragically passed on December 27, everyone realized the true nature of 2016. This year already took loved celebrities such as: David Bowie, Prince, Muhammad Ali, Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, George Michael, and many others. This year was awful from the beginning.

A day after Fisher’s death, her mother, Debbie Reynolds soon followed. After, people blamed it all on the bad luck of 2016. Most people gleefully welcomed 2017, wanted 2016 to go die in a hole. Twitter user, Ashlyn tweeted, “2016 is the worst year. Glenn Rhee died, Harambe died, and now America is gonna die, too!”

Next to the losses, America had to endure one of the most painful elections of all time. Voters were left with two of the worst candidates in American history. But the worst of it all, the candidate who won, Trump (dun dun duuun).

Throughout last year, the entire globe had to deal with numerous terrorist attacks. The bombing in Iraq and Baghdad that killed over 130 people, the ongoing attacks in Syria, a suicide bomber in Pakistan who killed 72 people and 29 of those people were children. Let’s not forget the Orlando shooting, the attack in Nice, France and the bombings in Brussels.

The Washington Post writer, Max Roser, thinks that people should stop complaining. Roser states, “Why do Americans have such a negative view? Many misunderstand how the world is changing or ignore the positive change,” then he goes on about how global poverty is decreasing. That’s cool dude, but that’s one good thing, in a world of a lot of bad things.

Yeah, I know that sounds pessimistic, but it’s true. No one is going to focus on a couple percent decrease in poverty while people are being blown up for the sake of “why not” and shot because they’re different. Max Roser says that 2016 is no worse than any other year.

That can be true. But 2016 was rough and it felt like one thing after another. So yes, I am glad this year is over, but will 2017 be different? One can hope.