“I will stop eating oily foods”, “I will stop staying up late night”, “I will start going to gym”, “I will start studying seriously” etc etc… How do you feel when people set some things which are impossible for them as New Year Resolutions??? Welcome to a new year. A decade after the millennium, this is how people think.
New Year, New day, New hopes, New Resolutions. Does it really work? Do we really need a new year to make ourselves firm? Isn’t every day a new day...? Every moment, a new moment... Every hope, a new hope?? Do we suppress our hopes if it isn’t hoped on the first day of a new year? Or is it just a fashion to have a hope and make ourselves firm on a new year?
I sometimes find it really superstitious. Like how our ancestors check on an auspicious time, day and place for an event, aren’t we doing the same thing by setting up a resolution on the first day of a New Year? Some people think New Year gives them a fresh feeling, so they freshly take up resolutions and follow them freshly. Oh! Does that mean as the year fades, they rot? and so do their once upon a time “fresh” resolution?
New Year is just an event which repeats itself after every 365 days. Just like how Sunday repeats after every 7 days, how 1:00 hrs repeats after every 24:00 hrs. In what way does this restarting point give us an enlightenment which may make us firm? According to me, the best way to keep up a resolution set up on New Year is not to set up one. Sounds funny. But true. I would rather call it as reciprocation because we are setting it, as a New Year approaches.
If we are really firm, no matter when the resolution or a decision we make in our life, we really stick on and never give ourselves an opportunity to condemn our firmness.
