And now...
Christmas has come and gone. All of the rushing around, the mad panic to find the perfect gift for all of your friends, family, co-workers, random acquaintances, ad infinitum... I hope it was worth it. All of the family coming to gather their presen... I mean see and visit with everyone else that they hadn't seen much or at all during the year, all of the massive amounts of food and sugar that will certainly make the New Year's Resolutions being penned at the moment to lose weight, get healthier, exercise more ad nauseum, more meaningful and realistic... ach.
I'm almost as guilty as the next person of this... I ate entirely too much. I suppose that's the extent of my culpability, however... I really didn't have the money to buy lots of presents or to get too wrapped up in the infuriating madness of the season. [Massive complaint blog cut from this section due to the fact that it would probably have pissed people off.]
Christmas. Holidays. New year.
I do have a resolution, though. I will make a valiant and true effort to be more creative, more efficient, in a word (or four), to Get More Done. Maybe it's a bit early for a Resolution, but I fear that if I wait, then it will be relegated to the same apathetic trash heap that all previous resolutions find their way to eventually. Perhaps if I am the first to declare a resolution, it will make it more meaningful and will therefore be completed. Of course, if it's just ambiguous enough, then no one will even be able to dispute whether it has been accomplished or not. Therein lies the beauty of a resolution that has, at its heart of hearts, a desire so ephemeral and intangible that it cannot be proved or disproved. I want to be more creative. Can anyone argue with me that I have accomplished this? Whether I create a thousand new works of supposed art, or merely one, can anyone judge truly whether or not that is more or less creative than I was this past year? Can they balk at my saying that I have become more efficient over the course of the year when creativity and accomplishment really have no time line? Even my declaration that I have Gotten More Done cannot be substantiated at the end of the year, as who knows how much I would have Gotten Done had I not had this resolution in place.
And thus, I have succeeded in creating a New Year's Resolution that has been both nullified and completed in the same instant, even before the trash trucks have been by to pick up the previous day's refuse. I think I've done well. Well enough, rather...
I've proven that I'm either unbearably clever or unbearably lazy.
And on that note, Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
I'm almost as guilty as the next person of this... I ate entirely too much. I suppose that's the extent of my culpability, however... I really didn't have the money to buy lots of presents or to get too wrapped up in the infuriating madness of the season. [Massive complaint blog cut from this section due to the fact that it would probably have pissed people off.]
Christmas. Holidays. New year.
I do have a resolution, though. I will make a valiant and true effort to be more creative, more efficient, in a word (or four), to Get More Done. Maybe it's a bit early for a Resolution, but I fear that if I wait, then it will be relegated to the same apathetic trash heap that all previous resolutions find their way to eventually. Perhaps if I am the first to declare a resolution, it will make it more meaningful and will therefore be completed. Of course, if it's just ambiguous enough, then no one will even be able to dispute whether it has been accomplished or not. Therein lies the beauty of a resolution that has, at its heart of hearts, a desire so ephemeral and intangible that it cannot be proved or disproved. I want to be more creative. Can anyone argue with me that I have accomplished this? Whether I create a thousand new works of supposed art, or merely one, can anyone judge truly whether or not that is more or less creative than I was this past year? Can they balk at my saying that I have become more efficient over the course of the year when creativity and accomplishment really have no time line? Even my declaration that I have Gotten More Done cannot be substantiated at the end of the year, as who knows how much I would have Gotten Done had I not had this resolution in place.
And thus, I have succeeded in creating a New Year's Resolution that has been both nullified and completed in the same instant, even before the trash trucks have been by to pick up the previous day's refuse. I think I've done well. Well enough, rather...
I've proven that I'm either unbearably clever or unbearably lazy.
And on that note, Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.