As another year unfolds, it’s inevitable for us not to
review the past. We look back and
recollect our achievements and failures, happiness and sadness, as well as the
kindness and mischief we did. We ponder
on lessons learned and tend to list down things we must keep up, must improve,
and must change. Then unknowingly, we
had created a New Year’s Resolution.
Wikipedia defines New Year’s Resolution as a commitment that
a person makes to one or more personal goals, projects, or the reforming of a
habit. It is made in anticipation of the
New Year and new beginnings. People
committing themselves to a New Year’s resolution generally plan to do so for
the whole following year.
As I asked some blog readers of what their New Year’s
Resolutions are, Edz Gutierrez answered, “After
I graduated from college, the New Year’s Resolutions stopped. Why? I
just stopped preparing them. Maybe
because a lot of them go unfulfilled anyway, so I no longer wanted to pressure
myself into making a list and then breaking what I wrote in that list.”
I strongly agree with her in that aspect for many of us make
very long lists of resolutions but at the end, they remain words in those lists. A lot of times, we’re being hypocrites to our
own selves that we say, “there’s still another year to come so save it for the
next New Year”. We’re just fooling
ourselves that’s why some people do not believe in New Year’s Resolutions at
all.
However, changes for the better are good so as Edz
continued, “But for this hub, I decided
to make another New Year’s Resolution list.
Since the New Year is a great time to review my past and plan for my
future, but for any real change to occur there has to be a long term
commitment. It needs to be a CONSTANT
LIVING RESOLUTION that I am committed to achieving. This living resolution does not fade after
January finishes, because it is alive and takes much more than a yearly review
to survive. I want to be UNUSUAL this
year and make my New Year’s Resolution a LIVING RESOLUTION that remains a part
of my life!”
Indeed, she’s correct!
That is why I’m sharing this to you, my dear blog readers – don’t lose
heart in making New Year’s Resolutions.
A New Year is like a book with blank pages to be written with words. A New Year is like a blank canvass to be
painted with colors. Let’s just see to
it that the words we write are good and the colors we paint are bright. Let us all have a positive outlook in life
not just at the start of a New Year but the whole year through!
My Blog Correspondents New Year’s Resolutions:
Edz Gutierrez “I’d like to continue sharing blessings to
people who need help and give more time in community service.”
Vian Sila “Baby!!!
Diet J”
Stephanie Laurete “To sleep early…”
Jemimah Garcia “To loose weight!!! and patience...”
Cheryl Singuran “Not to be late in appointments anymore…”
Marie Celle Mosqueda
“DIET! DIET!”
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