Another year gone! Time flies so fast, it’s quite unfathomable. And every time the end approaches, I usually reflect back on the good times, the bad ones, and what I’ve learned in order to make the next year better.

Here are 22 lessons, or song lyrics, that have rung true in 2022.

1- 🎶 You know how the time flies / Only yesterday was the time of our lives 🎶

2- 🎶 Nothing compares, no worries or cares
Regrets and mistakes, they’re memories made
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste? 🎶

3- 🎶 The worst things in life come free to us 🎶

4- 🎶 And there’s no remedy for memory 🎶

5- 🎶 But now, I don’t negotiate with insecurities
They always seem to get the best of me
I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to
Love me 🎶

6- 🎶 I got a paranoia in me
And you wouldn’t believe
Everything that I seen, no
Comin’ apart at the seams
And no one around me knows

Who I am, what I’m on
Who I’ve hurt and where they’ve gone
I know that I’ve done some wrong
But I’m tryna make it right 🎶

7- 🎶 Oh, I try and I try to remember sometimes
If I breathe, it’s alright, but some things don’t change 🎶

8- 🎶 I’m thinking ’bout how many times I’ve had to recover
All I do is start again
I’m thinking ’bout a new beginning
It’s never too late to start again, oh-oh 🎶

9- 🎶 Nobody’s perfect, we’ve all lost and we’ve all lied
Most of us have cheated the rest of us have tried
The holiest of the holies even slip from time to time
We’ve all got dirty laundry hanging on the line 🎶

10- 🎶 […] but hey, life goes on
We’ve all got the right to be wrong

‘Cause you can’t be everybody’s cup of tea
Some like it black, some like it green
Nobody’s everybody’s favorite
So you might as well just make it how you please

‘Cause you can’t be everybody’s cup of tea
Why would you want to be? 🎶

12- 🎶 Moving on was feeling strong / But healing doesn’t happen in a straight line 🎶

13- 🎶 Keep lookin’ up
Don’t let the world bring you down
Keep your head in the clouds
And your feet on the ground 🎶

14- 🎶 And if you never bleed, you’re never gonna grow 🎶

15- 🎶 Time, mystical time
Cutting me open, then healing me fine 🎶

16- 🎶 I’m damned if I do give a damn what people say 🎶

17- 🎶 Everything you lose is a step you take
So, make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it
You’ve got no reason to be afraid
You’re on your own, kid
Yeah, you can face this
You’re on your own, kid
You always have been 🎶

18- 🎶 Dear reader, get out your map
Pick somewhere and just run
Dear reader, burn all the files
Desert all your past lives 🎶

19- 🎶 Dear reader, you don’t have to answer
Just ’cause they asked you
Dear reader, the greatest of luxuries is your secrets 🎶

20- 🎶 Never take advice from someone who’s falling apart 🎶

21- 🎶 And just keep Jesus on your mind
Just keep Jesus on your mind
You do your dancin’, drink your wine
But just keep Jesus on your mind
‘Cause life’s too long for to keep regret
And love’s too strong to lay down for death
I know you’re hurtin’, but it’s not the end
So hold on, darlin’, I will see you again 🎶

22- 🎶 This is for everybody
Babe, you gotta take care of your body, yuh yuh yuh
Ain’t no time to deny it, that is why we talking about it
To deal with it, don’t try to get by it
So we had to sit down and just write it
You can work your way to the top
Just know that there’s up and downs and there’s drops
Unfollow fear and just say “You are blocked”
Just know there is so much room at the top 🎶