Recent news events — no indictments in two high profile cases of police force, the releasing of the torture report, the shooting of Tamir Rice, the Rolling Stone fiasco — have, as of late, clouded my vision of 2014. I’m ready to rush through December and — even if arbitrarily, with the flip of a calendar page — start anew.
I was therefore surprised when I felt oddly nostalgic while watching this Facebook-made video. (Damn you Facebook, you again manipulated my emotions again.) The company did a decent job highlighting the good — Malala, the World Cup, the Olympics, elections, the ALS ice bucket challenge — along with the heartbreaking — the deaths of Robin Williams, Maya Angelou, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joan Rivers, the injustice in Ferguson, Ebola.
Of course the video isn’t perfect; it hardly scratches the surface of this often-tumultuous year. However, it will jog your clogged memory and resurface up some highlight-worthy moments. Without further ado, watch below:
