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Sunday, February 4, 2018

New Year, Late Beginnings

I know, it's been a really long time since I posted.  I'm not explaining myself this time.  There is really no excuse for the extreme wait, and I'm even worse with my posted fanfictions and various other pieces of work.  In fact, with this to be a new year, it's giving me a new chance.  After all, isn't there something to learn from every previous experience one has ever had?

So, with these thoughts and knowing I'm typing this in the second month of the year, I am once again determined to attempt to keep up with a weekly blog.  Some weeks may have more than one post, most will be lucky to have just the one, but the point is not to determine if I failed to post.  No, the point is to keep my determination and attempt a post each week, even if they are typed up early and get a scheduled post time.  I have other goals as well, which brings me in all seriousness, to what has been irritating me lately.

New Year's Resolutions.  These are the goals a person sets for themselves at the end of the year to do by the end of the next year.  Typically they involve losing weight, saving money, or working out more.  The problem is that people tend to think they need to be met immediately.  They don't.  No, when you set a resolution, it's a goal to be met by the end of the year.  It's going to be hard to get started, but that shouldn't stop a person from continuing their attempts.  It's like this, you can't lose weight overnight without it being a surgery, but at the same time, you aren't going to give up trying to lose that weight just because you failed at one diet, no if you are truly determined, anyway.

With resolutions, I've heard so many reports of people claiming "Oh, I've failed my resolution.  Guess I should just give up now."  This, however, should not be our thought processes.  We need to figure out ways to inspire the changes we thought we wanted in ourselves.  I rarely commit to my resolutions more because I'm not as determined to meet most of these more society-based resolutions than because I've failed.  Yeah, I blamed society.  I won't take it back either.  Society tends to claim that what being healthy is means to lose weight or meet some sort of scientifically set standard.  While these are probably true, most of the time, it's become an increasing issue that has lead to various people believing, mistakenly, that they are not skinny enough or that something is wrong with them.

A few coworkers claimed to wish to stop using certain curse words, but as soon as they used one, they didn't think of  way to avoid it or try to make a new habit, they just claimed they had immediately failed.  It's the instant gratification we've become accustomed  to with online shopping that has allowed us to expect instant results.

With that said, I just want to remind everyone: Just because you don't manage to keep to your resolutions immediately, it doesn't mean you've failed.  Attempt to meet it again with a new strategy put into place.  A new diet or penalty for cheating could do wonders for making a person follow through with their goals, but remember, too, the goal needs to be something the person feels strongly for, not something others think would be a good goal for them.