The final months of 2013

[Aloysius]

Useful perhaps, everything has it's place, though they're not particularly efficient (or helpful).
Those tools of expression that we see being used a lot in these new age groups are effective ways of skewing one's view and conveniently escaping (reality and) responsibility.
Exaggerating something distorts the perspective of it compared to what it actually is, it is a form of dishonesty with the self.
Same can be said about the various others listed.

What's the use of all the positive catalyst if it's not processed and integrated (honestly)?

That being said I do feel much calmer than I used to, but to disregard the amount of self work involved in that process and to ascribe the major factors to some abstract conveniently self created metaphysical cause would be another form of dishonesty, though there are metaphysical principles involved. There's risk to reduce the perceived value of the self by ascribing all progress to a process which is "above" you and even more risk of over valuing oneself for perceiving being "in tune" with this process when others are perceived as not. Both cause perceptual disparity of self and other self.

Don't disregard the work you've done, but don't disregard the work you should do.

As for people within this forum, how's old greg (the ogre)? lol

Things will always be changing.

Edit: All processes capable of being imagined within your mind are within you, dis-identifying with parts of yourself is what can cause a lot of trouble.