New Year’s resolutions: the goals we set at the beginning of each year, in an attempt to ‘reinvent’ ourselves and generally become an all round better person.
Typically they involve giving something up, losing weight or just doing something better. More often than not resolutions are broken or forgotten within the first few weeks, and we are left with the unpleasant feelings of failure and disappointment that are miles from the drunken New Year’s optimism where anything seemed possible. Unless you are a special human being with the will power of a saint or someone who just hates failing, the cycle can spoil the New Year and it’s time to put a stop to it.
A New Year presents all sorts of opportunities and I believe by making a New Year’s resolution you are almost setting yourself up for disappointment which will only spoil such a wonderful time of year; it is almost as if you are limiting your freedom to live the way you want to. Constantly you have that nagging voice in the back of your head saying “Wait, you can’t do that remember your resolution?” Life needs to be lived with the possibility to do anything, not be held back by a few words uttered at midnight because it’s what you’re meant to do on New Year’s Eve.
So, unsurprisingly I haven’t set any resolutions this year. I didn’t last year and looking back at 2010 it was probably one of the best years so far, actually I am a little bit disappointed to see it end. And, yes, 2011 will be one of the most stressful years of my life but I believe by entering into it with an open mind and without being held back by a resolution it could just top 2010 and be pretty damn a-ma-zing.
Therefore New Year’s resolutions can, to quote my favourite film, “*Blows Raspberry* jog on.”
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