It's almost the end of 2023. I'm a superstitious person by nature, despite being the kind of person who studied chemistry and biology in college. One of my strongest beliefs is that the more you focus on the bad outcomes in life, the less likely they are to happen, though you should still make contingencies just in case. As a result, I've been predicting the worst that could possibly happen next year, at least in my eyes. That way, even if some of my predictions come true, most of them won't. Once the bad things in life know that you're expecting them, they'll run away from you as fast as they possibly can.