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Why I quit making New Year's Resolutions many years ago...
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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
12/21/2007 5:59 AM |
It’s that time of the year when we should start considering what resolutions we might make for the New Year of 2008. I generally don’t bother with the practice anymore. I’ve disappointed myself so many times in the past when I’ve failed to follow through on a goal for the new year, that I’ve gotten lazy and now generally take that infamous Path of Least Resistance, which in my case, is just not to make any resolutions at all. Over the years, I’ve thrown the proverbial towel into the ring on at least a few occasions; and when it came to New Year’s Resolutions, that particular towel was the easiest one I’ve ever thrown.
Hopefully, those of you who may be reading this are built of sturdier stuff than I am, because the underlying logic of resolutions for the new year, is quite sound. A new year represents a new beginning, a fresh start, a time when the slate is wiped clean, and everyone more or less starts off from the same metaphorical starting line. It’s a great time to tackle that smoking habit that’s been bugging you, or to resolve to give up milk shakes, pizza and french fries in an effort to shed a few pounds from around the waist. It’s also a great time to start reading that book you’ve been meaning to get around to for the past five years. Do it before the pages turn into dust. It’s also a great time to start writing that book you’ve always thought you’d get around to someday. You’re not going to live forever, you know! Or maybe undertake that daily one-mile walk you’ve been thinking about for the past 10 years or so.
But perhaps one of the best resolutions that any of us could make is to spend a little more time outdoors, to give up some of that precious (but mostly wasted) time spent watching TV in a kind of intellectual stupor that accepts whatever is paraded across the screen without any real thinking or analysis going on behind those bleary eyes. If all the hundreds of hours we all waste watching TV could be put to good use, we’d probably advance our civilization 10 times quicker than we do now.
There’s a lot of good programming on TV but let’s face it, most of the prime-time stuff is just chewing gum for the mind. That time could be better spent in any number of pursuits. Hmmm... maybe I WILL make a resolution for the coming year. Less TV, more book-reading. I’ve been getting pretty tired of all those inane commercials anyway. |
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