New Year Resolutions?
Good luck with that! Does anyone really succeed at keeping New Year resolutions… really? How long does the average person actually stick to it? One month, maybe two if you’re lucky. I think that the only people that stick out their resolutions are bosses who decide to crack down on their staff (sorry venting).
I myself decided on developing different eating habits for the New Year and I have already cheated (yeah… sad… I know). It was just my excuse to engage in gluttony for the month of December. Is it that I’m extremely indiscipline or is it just that everyone fails at New Year resolutions and that it is total waste of time!?
But who was the genius to come up with the idea of New Year resolutions anyways? From my extensive research I could say (university has paid off) that there was some mythical king of early Rome, called Janus, who could look both backwards and forward and thus became the ancient symbol for resolutions.
I feel that we somehow trick ourselves into believing that magically the 1st of January gives us a clean slate and that we can all of a sudden focus on our aspirations, be all that we can be, and recommit ourselves to our friends and family. Oh come on people, it is just another day. And aren’t those resolutions usually made in an alcohol induced state old year’s night anyway?
Oh, and I can’t forget those that flock to mass or church or wherever it may be at old years night. BEING AT CHURCH AT THE STROKE OF 12 IS NOT GOING TO MAKE YOU SPIRITUALLY GROUNDED AND FULFILLED, it requires dedication to spiritual development on you part. Honestly we need to strive not one or two months out of 12 to improve ourselves, try to use the whole year :-)
So isn’t New Year resolutions a bag of hot air?
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i doh believe in new years resolution!
i doh make new yrs resolution, becuz it doh make sense. i make resolutions everyday.