I've heard a lot of people talk about how New Year's Resolutions are just a lame excuse to act stupid the rest of the year. Or about how it is so much better to just make these resolutions as soon as you think of them rather than at the start of the new year. Or about how making resolutions is so ridiculous because they only last a couple of months.
Well, I feel differently.
In seventh grade, I made a New Year's resolution to keep a journal. I've written consistently ever since. In eighth grade, I made a New Year's resolution to stop drinking pop. I haven't since. My senior year I was fed up with resolutions, seeing how it had been a while since I had made one that actually became a habit. So that year I resolved to eat more ice cream. It has become a habit. :)
In the years since, I haven't made any resolutions that have had a measuring stick. I can't literally see the progress I'm making or anything like that. They were more personal goals, and you know what? They've stuck with me as well. Though I'm still working on a lot of them, they weren't goals that I let drop only two months into the year.
This year, Julia, Chelsea and I made a list of "resolutions" and then put them into a hat and took turns pulling them out until they were all gone. We each ended up with ten things to accomplish throughout the year 2013. Some are silly, and some (very few) are slightly serious. I won't say who ended up with what goal, but here are some examples of what we came up with.
- Tell a stranger to meet you at a certain place, at a certain time and on a certain day and then show up and wait for them.
-Go without texting for a while week
-Throw eggs
-Pay for a random person's movie tickets or food at a drive-up.
-Interrupt a boy by kissing him
-Have a paint fight
-Have a "High School Musical Moment."
-Eat pancakes every day for a month
I'm pretty excited about this list. I'm looking forward to some, and not much to others. But it will be fun. :)
Of course I'm making other resolutions as well. One that I am pretty excited about. If you've consistently read my blog (if anyone like that out there exists) then you are about to roll your eyes and say "Seriously, Sorine? You're going to try that again? Just give up already!" But that's the thing, I don't want to give up. This year I am going to make steps towards that dream I have to become published. I don't care if it is in a small publication, or if I end up FINALLY actually finishing something and publishing it. I don't even care if I have to do one of those self publication things, I want it to happen. And this is going to be the year. At least the year where I make a little bit more progress. :) Wish me luck!
And to those of you who are against new year's resolutions, GET OVER IT! ;)
