Hurry!!! Happy one-year anniversary to the Hive Learner Community. It's already a year since the birth of this wonderful community. ![gaelle-marcel-vrkSVpOwchk-unsplash.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmQNDszCpVwNvXSY3uzarwXYyAS1BWjZLcrvK8yChLy17H/gaelle-marcel-vrkSVpOwchk-unsplash.jpg)_{[Image by gaellemarcel](https://unsplash.com/@gaellemarcel)} Top Five of the Year! The past year has been quite a year for me, for my fellow writers and their community at large. A year that I got to read a lot of good and works of fellow writers on this space, I also got to learn a lot from the works and I got to read from a lot of individuals here. It really has been a great year for me here, and I can say it to anyone's face that I do love it here, reading and also dropping my works here too. Anytime I get to see a new featured topic I am to write on, it gives me joy, goosebumps, butterflies in my bellies and it gets to drive me down the road of my memory lane. Sometimes when I see a topic I'm writing on, I pause and reminisce about the moments I lived through that memory, the joy and anxiety that comes with me typing it is on another level. When I do want to relive the moments but by bit, I don't use phone to write them down, rather I use my pen and paper, so that I get to feel every bit of the moment and when I get to type my handwritten work again, that's the climax of it all, because I get to smile with the joy that comes with it and feel the pain that comes with the sad memories. In the past year, I got to relive memories while I wrote on a featured topic and I got my favorites amongst them. I would gladly share them with you all today. https://images.hive.blog/DQmNdt9UQTLiUzVydmKmbjkoU527rk4bgMfiCJWSvar1Kjv/portrait-3138140_1280.jpg_{[Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/photos/portrait-adult-men-s-people-3138140/)} Taking the number fifth spot is Week 33's featured topic "[That One Thing Do, I Don't](https://peakd.com/hive-153850/@mistural/that-one-thing-people-do) ". Well this one was quite personal for me, because once again I got to tell that I'm not a regular type of person and I really don't mind not doing what others do to feel among, and I got to love the peace of being that lone ranger that's always happy with making one's personal choices. Peer pressure and buying trendy clothes are just not really my thing, I got to highlight them and say a few things about them. ![girl-3528292_1280.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmeB26D2HtBxPznJaXSvkZdtjP8NcASeA6JGEzWj9AwgJM/girl-3528292_1280.jpg)_{[Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/photos/girl-woman-read-book-sit-nature-3528292/)} Taking the number fourth spot is "[Something I Learnt And Mastered Without Being Tutored](https://peakd.com/hive-153850/@mistural/something-i-learnt-and-mastered). This is one of my favourites because I connected with it and relived my memory of me writing my first ever poem at fifteen, and it actually something I did mastered on my own with no formal class attended. I got to master this passion of mine with almost no help from anyone, but by my passion and love for poems. It is something I am proud of and I can speak of. ![IMG_20230316_124608.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmPECHQaNywLYLu7HKzePAurst8fo8w7pqqNaPi8pjXGK6/thisisengineering-raeng-xZTScJvolYk-unsplash.jpg)_{Owned by [ThisisEngineering RAEng](https://unsplash.com/photos/xZTScJvolYk/download?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTR8fHRlYWNoZXJzfGVufDB8fHx8MTY3ODk0ODgzMg&force=true)} And for the third place is "[My Worst Teacher Gave Me My Best Teacher](https://peakd.com/hive-153850/@mistural/my-worst-teacher-gave-me)", here I saw this as an opportunity to grade my teachers. I've never been asked or given an opportunity to do so, I was really happy about this topic and it is on my third place. ![joshua-rawson-harris-yWKksPQcFDk-unsplash.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmRP6WzFnLS7Avoydsi8jVnGj5q6MR3tLW6dALR7VxqZup/joshua-rawson-harris-yWKksPQcFDk-unsplash.jpg)_{Joshua Rawson-Harris On [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/yWKksPQcFDk/download?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8Mzh8fHNvcnJ5fGVufDB8fHx8MTY3ODc1NzIyOA&force=true)} My second place is a spot I reserved for the featured topic "[My Hard Time Saying Sorry](https://peakd.com/hive-153850/@mistural/my-hard-time-saying-sorry)". This topic really touched me when I got to read works of other writers, where I got to see the pain in their story. The one that touched me the most was the one I read about someone almost losing her life because of no one ready to apologize to each other. It touched my heart when I realized that a lot could have been prevented if apologies were made. ![99pyU5Ga1kwr5Xg46gnE3BrdGQcYkevrMfGqYdeyZQrcgAzQSzKssRog7db7ypWfyi6YX8MobUHmXytcbCmnkuCtZn5rMCWj4q3LzwBpem9QUr9FjCvL5BpqkT5dVH1oo4.jpeg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmej4fMYXgdENNAespdvAZeYfJea8ubzvMLaow8MKDgQRD/99pyU5Ga1kwr5Xg46gnE3BrdGQcYkevrMfGqYdeyZQrcgAzQSzKssRog7db7ypWfyi6YX8MobUHmXytcbCmnkuCtZn5rMCWj4q3LzwBpem9QUr9FjCvL5BpqkT5dVH1oo4.jpeg) _{[Image Source](https://pixabay.com/photos/train-sad-lonely-regret-desperate-4165566/)} My top one is, drumroll please. "[The Truth I Regretted Telling](https://peakd.com/hive-153850/@mistural/the-truth-i-regretted-telling)", this topic was personal to me and I still get flashes of what happened that day and it's really one I'm happy about. It is my Top one because I did feel every moment of the hurt and pain that came with it. I was punished for telling the truth, I was taught that the truth always heals and saves me from the truth but that day was different, I felt pain and was punished for saying just the truth. It's not really ideal for me to pick a sad one as my favourite but, it is for me. I had the same motivation to write all these, and the motivation was reliving my memories through my works and writing. Yeah, there were times I wouldn't want to write, times when typing seemed almost impossible but reliving my memories keeps me going and sharing my story is something I can never stop doing. This is my entry for my five favourite topics, I hope you enjoyed it.

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