Life is not viewed linear: not a happier year, a worse day; It's the bigger picture and the sum of each day that make up the whole puzzle.
You can't say you had a boring year, or a sadder year and compare it to the past years. You can have a sad day and it's still a beautiful life.
For life to be viewed as beautiful, it does not have to be pretty or happy all the time.
And to be fair, life is a mosaic. And a ******* hard-to-interpret artwork. And art is meant to be messy, unstable, hard to look at: but still amazing, beautiful and interesting.
Imagine an artwork, with super easy strokes to define and colours that are too vibrant to name, would that be still amazing? Sure it is, still!
But the most beautiful artworks are probably one that poured with a whirlwind of emotions and thoughts one can't easily decipher — unfathomable, ineffable, and makes one wonder and wander.