Today's prompt is to set/share a goal. Since new years was last weekend, I think this is a good time to discuss New Years Resolutions. I have three. I know that within a week I will have forgotten them or given up. resolution one is to be nicer and more sincere with people: this is a result of reading so many books in which the phrase "they said sincerely" was used. I don't know if I ever speak sincerely. I must, since I feel my feelings when I feel them and share those feelings as words coming out of my mouth. Is that sincerity? I think it is, but sometimes I feel like maybe I'm not nice or honest enough all the time. I can be mean in my head, and maybe that's what I'm actually trying to work on. The second resolution is trite and will definitely be abandoned around valentines day when I will be eating copious amounts of chocolate and reading Jane Austen novels (Oh Colonel Brandon, when will you show up on my doorstep?). Anyway, this second resolution is to be healthier; this does not mean I want to be thin. I would like to be able to run without gasping within the first 100 feet, and I would like to have toned appendages. I like cheeseburgers (and everything else) too much to give up eating them regularly in exchange for a smaller waistline. But i also want to drink more water and eat more dairy products, since I thought that was lame as a teenager and still don't enjoy drinking water unless it is bubbly and/or flavored. I don't think these desires are unobtainable, but the motivation and commitment to self improvement is what makes it daunting. As you can see, I can't even update a blog reliably, how am I going to keep up with whatever routine I set for myself? I guess I'll just wing it and be happily surprised if I succeed. My third resolution is to read varying things instead of just vampire fantasy, harry potter and jane austen. I have 18 books that are waiting to be read, and I'm proud to say only one of them is a Jane Austen novel, one of them is a vampire novel and the others cover varying subjects. I want to re-read some of the books that I really liked from varying classes from UConn as well. Generally, I want to continue to expand my knowledge of things while also fine-tuning my history knowledge (I feel like I've lost a lot of stuff already).
SO that all being said, I think New Years Resolutions are stupid because I would have done all three of the things previously mentioned, whether it was the new year or not. It's all about circumstances and inclination rather than "oh but it's the new year! i must change!" what if you're perfectly happy the way you are and can't think of something to change? Does that makes you arrogant or superior? I think it makes you realistic. I know that there aren't any huge things about myself that I really want to or could change. I think to bring change about in a person, it requires significant events and a lot of changing circumstances to cause that person to adapt and thus change. Trying to remember to write 2011 on your checks is not a significant enough event to cause you to adapt in a natural way into a better person according to goals that you set for yourself. YOU control who you are and how you interact with people or what you put in your body, etc. Anyway, it just seems silly to put so much significance on something that happens EVERY YEAR. If it was a new decade, that would make m- ohhey, it is a new decade. We're in the teens now. well crap, I guess I could just make these goals for a decade and see what I get ;)
Til Tomorrow,
MeggyB
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