New Year's Resolution
Every year, people make New Year's Resolutions on New Year's Eve for the coming of the next calendar year. People attempt to set goals that they almost never adhere to. While it is tradition to do this and quite honorable if one can stick to it, I feel that setting a New Year's resolution for sake of tradition and on a somewhat arbitrary date such as the sequential coming of the next calendar year is falsely representative of what a New Year's Resolution should be.
While it is as good a date as any to set a goal for oneself (the feat of living to see another year is admirable in itself), I feel that it would be much more accurate for a person to set a personal goal for him- or herself on the date of his or her birthday. As this is the date said person came into this world, I feel it is much more appropriate and more celebratory to become introspective at this time, when it is more fitting personally, than at New Year's, when it is a time everyone can celebrate the coming of a new year.
When one thinks about it, a birthday really is the coming of a new year in a person's life. It is a time when a person can take into account all the years he or she has been alive on this earth already, and then take the appropriate positive steps to look forward to the next year. Each birthday is a person's own personal New Year, and it should be celebrated as such. Therefore, I think that if a person is going to take the steps and set a New Year's Resolution for him- or herself, he or she should do it on his or her birthday.
I recently entered into my 23rd year on this earth, and though I've never really been big into setting New Year's Resolutions for myself, I definitely use the surrounding period of time as a time of inner reflection, thinking about all the things I've done in the past year, some I'm proud of, some I'm not so proud of. It gives me a better insight as to what I should try to do better for the next year.
I really hope to make my 23rd year a great year for me. It's taken 22 to get me this far. Hopefully, I can make the 23rd one worth the wait.
While it is as good a date as any to set a goal for oneself (the feat of living to see another year is admirable in itself), I feel that it would be much more accurate for a person to set a personal goal for him- or herself on the date of his or her birthday. As this is the date said person came into this world, I feel it is much more appropriate and more celebratory to become introspective at this time, when it is more fitting personally, than at New Year's, when it is a time everyone can celebrate the coming of a new year.
When one thinks about it, a birthday really is the coming of a new year in a person's life. It is a time when a person can take into account all the years he or she has been alive on this earth already, and then take the appropriate positive steps to look forward to the next year. Each birthday is a person's own personal New Year, and it should be celebrated as such. Therefore, I think that if a person is going to take the steps and set a New Year's Resolution for him- or herself, he or she should do it on his or her birthday.
I recently entered into my 23rd year on this earth, and though I've never really been big into setting New Year's Resolutions for myself, I definitely use the surrounding period of time as a time of inner reflection, thinking about all the things I've done in the past year, some I'm proud of, some I'm not so proud of. It gives me a better insight as to what I should try to do better for the next year.
I really hope to make my 23rd year a great year for me. It's taken 22 to get me this far. Hopefully, I can make the 23rd one worth the wait.
posted by Leland J. Fischer at 10:18 PM
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