Every year I make them, you probably do too. And I've noticed a trend. Every year they're basically the same things, just slightly different wording. It seems to be one the biggest cliches ever. Tat whole "New Year, New Me" attitude that everyone adopts on the first of January and forgets completely by the second.
Your resolutions are most likely along the same lines as mine, which are usually along the same lines as Bridget Jones'.
But this year I've decided to stray from tradition. Instead of having my usual "Get fit, stop swearing, start smiling" resolutions, I've decided to adopt a much more simple mantra: Be Good.
Luckily this is about the most ambiguous you can get, so there's lots of room for life there. I really cannot be more fed up with every year new years day, sitting in my room trying to picture where I will be this time next year and hoping that since i've followed my resolutions that I will have evolved into this Beyonce-like Goddess that looks and acts like pure perfection. I figure there is no point striving for such perfection as I know I'll never get there, and whilst its a lovely ideal, its not practical. We can try all we want to be perfect each year, but being humans we'll likely fuck things up thousands of times. The reality is, we will never be perfect. But we can always be good. And should always strive to be.
So that's my New Years Resolution. I'm looking forward to a good 2014.
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
-John Steinback, East of Eden
-Kate
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