Vasu
Reddy From Chicago
Everyone
must have some sort of a resolution for the New Year. The typical practice is to procrastinate
until the last day of the year and the make a resolution at the end of the old
year to do something which is quite simple day to day routine, and then right
after the new day (of the new year) forget about it. I am going to lose weight. I am going to work
harder, I am going to make more money. I am going to finish the project I
started, I am going to finish school, I am going to get a better job, I am
going to call my family and friends, and so on and on are many of the normal
New Year resolutions that we make, and hardly follow through on them.
We
are optimistic in nature as human beings and hopeful of something better every
day in life, and constantly want to do better, bigger and greater and whatever
if the next best thing in life, and new year is the time to keep reminding
one’s self that the next 365 days will hold a better something for self and
everyone around. It is certainly a great
way to at least resolve one’s self that something that is as simple as weight
loss is something we must resolve ourselves to make an effort to remember and
make an attempt to follow through.
Politicians
must have a great time during New Year in making resolutions. Almost certain that they can’t keep them, but
still balancing the budget, reducing the employment, fighting crime, and on and
on, along with keeping their job for one more term are great resolutions. Although
practically impossible the resolutions or pronouncements are good to hear and
make great sound bites, but simply fall through the cracks by the end of the
first quarter of the year. As most
things that gets side tracked or ignored, political promises are as good as
resolutions and seldom get any mention after they are made. To have the resolve to keep up to the
resolutions is no longer a political strategy, rather simply making the
pronouncements to the audience is the name of the political game.
Personal
resolutions are not as simple to keep as the practice to do something requires
regular attention, and just by making a resolution on the 31st of
December will not make it any easier or more difficult to all of a sudden start
a new routine. We perhaps think of the
long holidays between before Christmas and after the New Year and start to
believe that we can establish a new behavior pattern, and it rather becomes a
more difficult new practice as we become lethargic due to the long holiday.
Adults and kids get used to doing nothing during the long break and will seldom
want to get back to normal routine, leaving along a brand new routine, which
will be more demanding than the regular routine.
It
is great to benchmark what to do (what new to do) for the next 365 days, but
why wait until the first day of the New Year, and why not just get started the
day when you thought of the new task or renewing an old task?
It
is for all practical purposes a day to think of the New Year in the calendar
and also a typical time for celebration for all people. We just think of the beginning of a calendar
year as a time to just hang out and also start to think of one more year to
live and look forward to, and the New Year resolutions are a simple way to
rethink what was done in the past year and also what was left undone.
Happy
New Year Everyone, wishing everyone a great 2015.
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