The Thing About Resolutions

It is 2015, a new year and almost everyone in the world is psyched about what lies ahead. Some are just happy that it’s yet another year with opportunities to explore and better chance to make up for lost time in 2014. At the peak of high celebrations was the making of New Year resolutions; Plans or long term expectations to be achieved during the course of the year. The tradition of making these resolutions can be traced to as early as after the Great Depression when adults then started making plans to recover from the big financial flop.

While a good number of people go to a great extent of making clearer blue prints of what is intended to be achieved and actually go through with those plans, another greater majority is just lost in the frenzy of the moment. Excitement coupled with starting a new life phase keeps one so entrenched in living a blissful moment. A glimpse to hold on to before the spurge of obligations and responsibility of real life floods back. We are almost through with January; resolutions are already out the window as we’ve more or less resolved to waiting for next year. Come to think of it, the reasons why most people’s plans don’t come through may be attributed to the fact that New Year resolution bars are set too high, without putting to place clear mechanism of achieving them, and a recurring tendency of not accomplishing previous resolutions.

Money and habitual addictions is almost always at the center of it all making a list of the most broken New Year resolutions: stop spending and save, make more money, quit smoking/drinking, getting fit, eat better, donate to charity or do more volunteer work etc. Truth be told, the human mind is not that strong especially when it comes to doing away with things that make us comfortable. Once you fall off the wagon in accomplishing your plans, there might be no going back!

There is never any pressure on living up to the self-placed expectation because there is always a new day to make things right. So like new year resolutions, whatever world culture will arise in the future, the goal is to live in the moment, plan for the future as you wait for tomorrow. Do not worry about not achieving your set goals in January. You have long year ahead with  many more chances to live the life you deserve. That’s the thing about resolutions!