To be clear, I’m in my 40s. As far as I’m concerned, my years have been way too complex to classify any single one of them as the “worst.” I’m talking about internet reactionary doomerism, which keeps on proclaiming every single year as “the worst year ever,” since 2011 but especially since 2016. It seems like our culture at large should stop making such huge, binary statements like that. Some years can just be bad, or decent, or good. They don’t all have to be (and can’t all actually be) the best or worst; and you probably won’t be able to identify the actual peaks or valleys until you’re able to look back on them with some greater perspective anyway.