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A Resolution? - No Way!

Prompt: Have you ever kept a New Year’s Resolution that you made?

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As a general rule, I don’t make resolutions on New Year’s Eve or at any other time. If I promise myself to do something, I’ll do my best to do it. I think, at times, people confuse wanting to do something with making resolutions. Yes, I want to do a lot of things, but I don’t make resolutions for those or even promise to do those only to myself. Yet, when I want to do something, I can focus on it and usually bring it to completion, but I don’t beat myself up while doing it or afterwards.

Resolutions are attempts for reinventing selves. If I wanted to reinvent myself, I’d have to go through extensive psychiatric rehabilitation therapy. Then maybe such resolutions would work.

Resolutions need sharpened attention and focus. They also bind a person to a time period. It is true that a time frame helps to get things done, but there are other aspects in a resolution other than focus and timing.

When you look closely to it, in a resolution, there is a cause and effect factor. What people have or did or didn’t do in the past, now has to be undone, done, or redone. If a person had the guts in the first place, the cause part of the equation wouldn’t have happened, would it? How do you undo or redo without some pain what is so stuck into your life? To see yourself lose again?

Not for me. I am not a glutton for punishment.


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Here's something on the subject for a chuckle or two.