Just last week I saw a meme that read: “Imagine if you could watch a trailer of your 2018.” That thought has stuck with me.

I love trailers. I will always show up to movies early so I can watch each preview. In many cases, trailers are better than the actual films. They highlight the most stressful, most action-packed, most climactic, most thrilling, and most dramatic moments of a movie—sometimes with a few deceptive twists that aren’t actually in the plot.

It’s no secret, 2017 has been a crapshoot for the world. I’ve had a lot of personal successes, but I’ve also had some failures and disappointments, and I’m just not sure what is going to happen next in the world. What will happen in 2018 evades everyone’s grasp. In past years, a better guess might have been within reach.