I never make News Year's Resolutions. Do you want to know why? Because I hate making empty promises that I can’t keep. Now I know what you are all thinking. "You mean those empty promises you make to keep posting on your blog when you don't?" I know! But you what? I've come to terms with it. Yes, I love this blog and I hope people enjoy reading what I have to say. But in all honesty, there are more important things than this blog in my life. With college coming up and all the other junk that is filling my life, I just don’t have time. One day, this blog will be amazing. Of that, I have no doubts, but for now, I am willing be patient, a new skill I am trying out as of late.
Back to New Year's resolutions… Every year, never fail, someone asks me if I plan on making any New Year's resolutions. Every year, I say no. This may seem pessimistic to you guys, but think about it. If I never make any promise I will not be able to follow through on, then I will not in any way be failing. It is saving me the disappointment of knowing I failed to follow through on something.
I have yet another problem with these so called breakthrough promises. Why do we need a special day to attempt to make any positive change in our lives. Shouldn't these changes come about the same the desire for change is thought of? Apparently not. Everyone simply HAS to wait until every other person is making the same change. Are we so unable as humans to find confidence in our own desire for change that we can't make it without knowing there are others doing the same thing?
In conclusion, I am making an anti-resolution resolution. My one and only New Year's Resolution is this: I vow to never make a New Year's resolution. If I desire to make any sort of change in my life, I will make it when and how I please. Take that world conformity!
P.S.- With the turn of the New Year, many of you may be counting down the days until the so called end of the world. I, on the other hand, will be counting down the days until I can make fun of the idiocy of the those of you who actually believe it.
When I first looked at this I decided to just be happy that another post occured, and not critique anything. Obviously that position has changed, because at the end of the day I am Poncho, and Poncho vowed to basically be an arse. Sorry but a vow is a vow. Basically you say that you don't want to make promises you can't keep then critisize the fact that people need a special day to make promises. First off, the impossible goal in form of a new years resolution is the best kind. If you fail, so what it was impossible, or at least unlikely to start with. And if you succeed, amazing thats one less thing on the over long list of what is impossible. Secondly, I just like to say that it's a little, for lack of a better word, cowardly (don't find a way to punch me) to say your afraid to commit, and then to strike at peoples courage in needing a special day to make a commitment. At least they try, plus it's the holidays. A time for optimism, and naivete. Cynisism should wait until febuary 14th, where it rightly belongs.
ReplyDeleteI would still like to thank you very much for posting something and ask that you continue to do so as much is convient. I respond out of respect.
In keeping the fight- Poncho