resolutions revisited, 10 years later
Last week, I looked through my old Livejournal entries because I was looking for a post I made during high school or college about songs I thought were perfect (hence, my username created cerca 2004). I ended up reading a few of my old entries. One that stuck out was a post about my new years resolutions from 2005. Ten years ago, I resolved to...
1. Stop biting my nails. (It took years, but I stopped biting my nails in 2010 and have not bit them since.)
2. Stop wasting so much time and stop procrastinating. (I have been failing at this one lately and the main culprits are: Facebook, Buzzfeed, Netflix, Amazon Video - my husband and I started watching Veronica Mars last week and are almost done with season 1)
3. Write more often. (It's on my To Do list every day, but I'm out of practice after having spend 2 years as a full-time Kindergarten teaching and the last one also attending graduate school, planning my wedding, and buying a house. I am hoping I can use my Livejournal as a writing warm-up before working on short stories and the novel I'm supposed to be revising.)
4. Stay true to myself, even when everyone else seems to be going against my beliefs. (This seems to be a very high-school resolution. I remember in high school having teachers for the first time who promoted political agendas. If it were college, maybe I would have added, use new information to evaluate my beliefs. Now, I don't have trouble with either.
5. Read more literature and less fanfiction. (Yes, ten years later, this is still a major concern.)
Last month, I got married, went on my honeymoon, returned and bought a house, and spent the next few weeks buying furniture, landscaping, cleaning, and with the help of the Orkin man, dealing with the brown recluse spider infestation we discovered in the yard. It seems like all of these important milestones happened all at once, as if we fast-forwarded through them. But the good days always go by fast. You have to capture them somehow, in words, or photos, or videos, or else the details slip out from under you.
1. Stop biting my nails. (It took years, but I stopped biting my nails in 2010 and have not bit them since.)
2. Stop wasting so much time and stop procrastinating. (I have been failing at this one lately and the main culprits are: Facebook, Buzzfeed, Netflix, Amazon Video - my husband and I started watching Veronica Mars last week and are almost done with season 1)
3. Write more often. (It's on my To Do list every day, but I'm out of practice after having spend 2 years as a full-time Kindergarten teaching and the last one also attending graduate school, planning my wedding, and buying a house. I am hoping I can use my Livejournal as a writing warm-up before working on short stories and the novel I'm supposed to be revising.)
4. Stay true to myself, even when everyone else seems to be going against my beliefs. (This seems to be a very high-school resolution. I remember in high school having teachers for the first time who promoted political agendas. If it were college, maybe I would have added, use new information to evaluate my beliefs. Now, I don't have trouble with either.
5. Read more literature and less fanfiction. (Yes, ten years later, this is still a major concern.)
Last month, I got married, went on my honeymoon, returned and bought a house, and spent the next few weeks buying furniture, landscaping, cleaning, and with the help of the Orkin man, dealing with the brown recluse spider infestation we discovered in the yard. It seems like all of these important milestones happened all at once, as if we fast-forwarded through them. But the good days always go by fast. You have to capture them somehow, in words, or photos, or videos, or else the details slip out from under you.