The best fiction makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.
The biggest regret in life is giving up what should not be given up easily, and stubbornly persisting in what should not be persisted.