New Years :-)
You can tell the New Year is fast approaching. On my way home from France I walked into one of the little book shops in the airport. The first huge display of books was all self-help. How to change yourself in seven days. And the magazine racks are even worse. Each and every cover spouting words like "Make your resolution stick!" or "Start your New Year's diet today!"
Makes me wonder what my New Year's resolution should be.
What goal, that I fully realize will probably not be kept, should I pick. Which trait should I pointlessly try to change about myself for 2007? Should I be less focused on boys? But then I realize that is silly, I'm not really the kind of girl who has ever been obsessed with boys. But then again, I think that's because I get the most guys when I'm not focused on guys, so in not being focused on guys I am anyway because I have them.
Perhaps a weight loss goal. But I detest weight loss resolutions because it's so uncreative. That and I don't want that to be a resolution, I just want exercise and a healthy diet to be a part of my life. And it's just so uncreative!
Last year I made a resolution to take more care with my appearance on a daily basis. I didn't do so good at that one, but it's still a goal of mine. But how pathetic is that? Choosing the same New Year's resolution as last year just because I couldn't make it stick last year. Horribly sad and pathetic.
There is always the rebellious choice of not making a New Year's resolution because the entire concept of them is a cutural expectation thrust upon us, forcing us to decide at this one time that there is something about ourselves that we need to change, and then spend a month or two furiously trying to keep said resolution knowing all the while that it's a futile cutural stupidity. But then again, I've never managed to be one of those rebellious types. And sad as it may be, I like the idea of a time where people can feel inadequate and yet know that everyone else is right there with you.
But all of this leaves me at square one. I have no New Year's resolution. Or I can't choose just one. Who knows. I still have three days to decide.
It's good to be home.
Makes me wonder what my New Year's resolution should be.
What goal, that I fully realize will probably not be kept, should I pick. Which trait should I pointlessly try to change about myself for 2007? Should I be less focused on boys? But then I realize that is silly, I'm not really the kind of girl who has ever been obsessed with boys. But then again, I think that's because I get the most guys when I'm not focused on guys, so in not being focused on guys I am anyway because I have them.
Perhaps a weight loss goal. But I detest weight loss resolutions because it's so uncreative. That and I don't want that to be a resolution, I just want exercise and a healthy diet to be a part of my life. And it's just so uncreative!
Last year I made a resolution to take more care with my appearance on a daily basis. I didn't do so good at that one, but it's still a goal of mine. But how pathetic is that? Choosing the same New Year's resolution as last year just because I couldn't make it stick last year. Horribly sad and pathetic.
There is always the rebellious choice of not making a New Year's resolution because the entire concept of them is a cutural expectation thrust upon us, forcing us to decide at this one time that there is something about ourselves that we need to change, and then spend a month or two furiously trying to keep said resolution knowing all the while that it's a futile cutural stupidity. But then again, I've never managed to be one of those rebellious types. And sad as it may be, I like the idea of a time where people can feel inadequate and yet know that everyone else is right there with you.
But all of this leaves me at square one. I have no New Year's resolution. Or I can't choose just one. Who knows. I still have three days to decide.
It's good to be home.