New Year’s Reso-Loser
Another New Year, and another chance to collectively look back on the regrets of the previous twelve months in a vain attempt to better ourselves and seek absolution for our laziness and lack of willpower and success.
We drag our hung-over bodies from bed, vowing to no longer drink, do all those bits of DIY that have been queuing up for months and to make a greater effort to realise the potential at work that we all know we can. As we gulp down that pair of Paracodol, we sweep together each failing, vice and moment of weakness and vainly promise ourselves never to let them happen again.
For my part I’ve tried not to get too involved in the self flagellation this year. Last January, I aimed to cut down on drinking (which lasted at least a week and a half) and to update this blog on a more regular basis (which lasted a little longer, but was eventually torpedoed by apathy and a general lack of imagination subject-wise). My lapses in both cases led me to think that, for most people, the idea of kind of ‘saving up’ self-improvement for one day of the year is a loser’s game; if you really wanted to stop (or start) doing something, why would you not just do it any other time?
So, I suppose, if I were to have any resolution at all, it’d be to be a little more pro-active and actually do things when they need doing, rather than save things up for occasions like New Year’s Day.
In any case, Happy New Year!
