Sabina Elago
Someone needs to tell me what New Year resolutions are and why people make them – albeit with little commitment. The most important question is: do people make New Year resolutions because it is a new year and they must tell others something worth listening to?
I am asking this because of what I have seen in the past. “New year, new me,” that is a song a lot of people are singing now on social media. But what exactly does that mean?
Let’s face reality, it is January and most people can say a lot about changing this and that in their lives because of the situation they are in. Does that make them New Year resolutions or mere ideas of taming Janu-worry? The resolution that many people have made for the past 10 years or so and have never changed is “this year I will stop drinking”. That has also grown into another song, but after January we see many that made that “I’ll quit drinking” resolution the idea of January situation.
What I am actually saying is, what is the use of setting good New Year’s resolutions when in reality you are not going to put them to work?
And it’s about time we stop doing what others are doing when we do not know anything about it. Because the truth is most people do not know what New Year’s resolution means, yet they make such pronouncements. They are busy uploading on their Facebook page “I will stop drinking and save money”, after January they are the ones asking, “Is it time to close already? But I just got here”. You didn’t just get here; it is the next day already. “This year I will pay more attention to my books”, but you hardly open one and read after classes.
“My goals for 2015 is to accomplish the goal of 2014, which I should have done in 2013 because I made a promise in 2012 that I planned in 2011”. That was the Facebook post that made me write this column.
So, yes, my New Year’s resolution are? “Well….I am still thinking about it”, but don’t blame me. It takes some people four years to accomplish their resolutions. Happy New Year and please set fruitful New Year resolutions. Till then… Eewa