New Year's Resolutions
Jesus, I haven't made any entries in here since... a long a** time ago; you can look up the date yourself.
So, what has happened during all that time hence? To be honest, nothing. I'm a senior now, have the same cool friends as always. My father is on the verge of kicking the bucket and thus ending my share of the decreasingly wealthy community potluck that is Social Security. My brother finally has a job, and my sister will be moving out in a month's time or so. Hopefully I can get my other brother into some type of education after high school, but it's a process. My mom is getting older and a little rickety, what with my father's failing health. Me... well I don't see much of a difference on that subject.
Why am I making a laundry list of my year? No reason; mostly because of a personal obligation I have to reflect on the year past in celebration of the new one to come. Though, I have always considered the idea of New Year's Resolutions as completely absurd and ridiculous. What can I do different? Plenty, I feel. What will I do different? Probably nothing... We make this inner commitment to be better, but always fall short of ourselves and the expectations we make for ourselves. So why bother making them at all? Keep the expectations low and you'll be more easily surprised, I always say.
If only we humans could grow like trees. The tree simply needs water and sunlight and it will grow for a pretty good while. A person needs so much more in order to grow. We need food, water, shelter -- like any other thing, but also emotional and intellectual nourishment. The only way one grows is by doing. By doing we hopefully help the world grow along with us.
Argh, this is sounding SO cheesy, but I don't know how better to say this. So when you make your new year's resolutions, how about resolving to actually doing them, or doing something about them? Well, that's my shpiel for the most part, and hope that I actually follow up on what I say [such an a** I'd be if I didn't...].
I thank you random reader for uh, reading this, I guess... I hope you've had a great year and hope that the new year brings you the best of times and the most of yourself for everyone to enjoy.
fatcheehcs · Sun Dec 28, 2008 @ 12:40pm · 0 Comments |