While this Mary Schmich poem is a bit US (and even Chicago) centric, I really liked it and thought you might as well.

All I get from the link is a Chicago Tribune page listing untold acts of violence and mayhem, primary of which is the Chicago Bears loss to Green Bay.

Well, heck. I can't seem to link to those articles anymore. I'll copy it here:

Let's bid a farewell
To old twenty thirteen
A year unlike any
The world's ever seen.

A year full of argument,
Tears and surprise:
A government shutdown
"Sharknado" and spies.

A killer typhoon
And the Syrian strife
A bombing in Boston —
The heartbreak of life.

A year full of selfies
(And please don't say "What?")
A year Miley Cyrus
Made proper folk tut.

Her dance it was shocking
That twerking! That tongue!
(But maybe that's just
What folks do when they're young.)

We loved "Walking Dead"
And we mourned "Breaking Bad"
We binge-watched on Netflix
And, man, were we mad!

Yes, mad at Obama
And mad at Ted Cruz
Yes, mad at the Congress'
Do-nothing news.

Yes, mad about health care
That site's a disaster!
Why, even a tortoise
Could move a lot faster.

Yes, mad at fat-shaming
And sheer yoga pants
Yes, mad at Vlad Putin
And liars like Lance.

And mad at Ms. Deen
And that creep Carlos Danger
(Poor Anthony Weiner
He keeps getting stranger.)

Yes, mad at "Duck Dynasty"—
Phil's such a jerk!
But gosh we were happy
To learn the word "twerk."

And while we were busy
With ranting and twerking
We learned from Ed Snowden
The NSA's lurking.

It lurks and it peeps
And it snoops on our phones
But here's some good news:
We'll get books via drones!

The Catholics elected
A free-thinking pope
A self-professed sinner
Who gave the world hope.

The rich they got richer
The poor folk did not
The chasm between
Is our shame and our rot.

The pope said so often
And not just in Rome
The prez said the very
Same thing here at home.

And women were told
That we need to "lean in"
Don't sit back while power
Is taken by men.

Meanwhile, in Chicago ...
We biked on our Divvys
Past speed camera lights
Gay marriage got legal —

A leap for gay rights.
The Ventra card came
Single rides for big bucks
The people complained,

"This new Ventra card sucks!"
And some people cried,
"Let's get rid of Rahm pronto!"
To which I'll just say:

You could move to Toronto.
Our city's not perfect
There's much that we lack
But give this to Rahm: He

Is not smoking crack.
Though some people wailed,
"Illinois is a joke!"
Good news for the sick:

They'll soon legally toke.
Ebert, Mandela
and Trotter all left
The loss of their light

Left us feeling bereft.
And now here we are
On the brink of next year
Let's toast to the past

And move on without fear.
The world is a mix of
The good and the bad
So maybe this year

We'll stop being so mad.
Let's look on the bright side
And have some new fun
And bet on the question:

Will Hillary run?