Very interesting when you browse you Facebook wall during the last month, or, especially, the last week of the year. To be particular, my News Feed is nothing but random opinions, promises, and plans for to become, or of becoming, a better this, a more wiser that, or something totally superficial like a brand new European car to park in front of their mother's house. This is the third year that I have a Facebook account, so I feel it's safe to say this is a trend. For some reason this amazes me too. I wonder do people really think in a matter of a second, from December 31, 2011 11:59:59 to January 1. 2012 12:00:00, you are "officially" starting a new life?
I believe that some people are convinced that they are a fresh flesh, or a clear slate, in that split second. I know for a fact, that I will hear a person say, "it's a new year, and I ain't going to", at the least 5 times a month. Fast-forward six months later in the year, and they totally forgot about all those goals, expectations, and flipped-flopped on all the rules they set for themselves. These people really expect a process to take place over night, and that is a very unrealistic expectation, but what really bothers me is that people notice they need to work on something, yet they hold it off until the new year to start working on it.
In 2011, I made 8 "resolutions" sparingly throughout the year. Except I consider them solutions, due to the fact that I noticed I had a problem, a issue, and it needed to be addressed. So I started to fix at the acknowledgement instead of looking forward to the beginning of a new calender year. Maybe because I'm always seeking to better myself spiritually, intellectually, and aesthetically (mental/physical), I don't consider a new 365 day cycle a cleansing experience. If a new annual is what matters, why don't people set resolutions for their birthday? That's one's actually new year, as in 365 day cycle.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against setting "resolutions"; I'm against procrastination when you feel like you should change something internally. I'm against the ignorance of thinking a new year is expected to bring you something different if you are not contributing something different. I made solutions, and implemented them in my life at several different moments, and I'm just looking forward to a new semester that will end with me having straight A's. I'm looking forward to watching my daughter grow, learn, and experience the world with more observation. And that's just it, I'm looking forward.
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