On New Years Resolutions

The New Year is right around the corner, and it’s about that time when everybody decides it’s the season to strive to be someone else.  However happy we may be with our lives, there’s always something we can change to be happier, right?  Maybe we want more friends, or less acquaintances.  Maybe we want something cliché like to lose weight or to end a bad habit. 

Or maybe it’s something original, like to start eating low sodium pickles instead of whatever you were having before, or to start dumpster diving instead of purchasing groceries from a store.

Maybe you’re the type of person who doesn’t like making resolutions.  You’d rather the year be a surprise, or you’d rather that life in general be a surprise.  Whenever you end up trying to plan something ahead of time, it never works out, so why make a resolution?

Maybe you like being surprised.  You don’t want to make a resolution because then if something good happens, there’s a chance that your past self gets all of the credit.  You want all of the credit for yourself!

Maybe you want to find the gold at the end of the rainbow.

Maybe your resolution is to meet new people, or to meet better people.  Maybe you need to meet people who matter instead of investing in people who don’t.  You wasted too much of 2012 caring about the impressions you left on people you never ended up seeing again, and you need to do something different this year.

Maybe you just need to do things better.

Whatever your resolution turns out to be, it’s going to be 2013 soon and the world hasn’t ended yet, so good luck and go out and do something different every once in a while!