This week, as we commence another new year, we asked readers their thoughts on their hopes for 2024.

 

“Oh, my hope for 2024 is long life and financial prosperity, and to get closer to my God, to be happier in my life and live positively. I hope the world can be more positive and happier, with peace and love for all.”

Donna Hargrect,

West Farms

“My hope for 2024 is that everything is better than last year [when] things haven’t been good. You can’t lose faith because things happen, good and bad. We have to be prepared for whatever comes. I hope my daughter can find an apartment and be independent, and I wish the best to everyone. I hope everybody hits Lotto; I don’t want to see these people in the street.”

Vivian Resto,

West Farms

“My hopes for 2024 include the most important things in life: world peace and time with my loved ones. Better health as it relates to wellness and sustained recovery. An abundance of opportunity to create a life for myself that I can be proud of. This would only be possible if I can continue to reciprocate the grace I have been blessed with. I hope to dig deeper into my identity as poet, community member, leader and father and I hope to help others become their best selves too.”

Felix Guzman,

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

“I wish for good health for my friends and family, and happiness, and less drama in the world. I hope people can get their heads on straight and for people to recognize the corruption throughout our government, and then get up off their asses, and do something about it.”

Grace Lovag,

Allerton

(currently running for NY State Assembly in A.D. 80)

 

“I hope that people can give each other grace, and to make room for one another. That can literally mean moving out of the way as you board a subway train or bus and smiling instead of scowling at a rambunctious child. It is also trying to think the best of others, assuming that someone is under stress or is hurting, rather than acting out of malice.”

Mary O’Shaughnessy,

Wakefield

 

Editor’s Note: We asked Lovag what corruption she was referring to and she said the U.S. government and U.S. President Joe Biden, his son, Hunter Biden, and the “Democratic cabal,” as well as the “Democrats’ handling of immigrants.”