Sometimes
I wonder what I'm doing with my life. Then the shower runs out of hot
water and I forget all about it.
With new years just behind us, people are already disappointing themselves. All those resolutions that they couldn't keep. A two day high after which they drudged back to their old mundane selves.
With new years just behind us, people are already disappointing themselves. All those resolutions that they couldn't keep. A two day high after which they drudged back to their old mundane selves.
Why
we need New Years resolutions.
We think we change ourselves. A grand gesture, a turnaround, a clean slate; New Year is for everyone to celebrate. A chance for a change. We set off in an attempt to improve ourselves, and eventually, year by year, achieve perfection.
When we think about the future, we see ourselves being the person we want to be, doing what we want to do, being with people we want to be with. The past is usually filled with stupid decisions, bad comebacks and grammatical errors.
And this shows us that change is imminent. To reach that perfection is future, we need a resolution. A rule that we can live by, that will make us a better person.
Why it is stupid.
We think we change ourselves. A grand gesture, a turnaround, a clean slate; New Year is for everyone to celebrate. A chance for a change. We set off in an attempt to improve ourselves, and eventually, year by year, achieve perfection.
When we think about the future, we see ourselves being the person we want to be, doing what we want to do, being with people we want to be with. The past is usually filled with stupid decisions, bad comebacks and grammatical errors.
And this shows us that change is imminent. To reach that perfection is future, we need a resolution. A rule that we can live by, that will make us a better person.
Why it is stupid.
Because we can't hope to live with it. A lazy slob one day, a clean active person the next, is simply not possible. New Years resolutions make you change yourself in one day. And when we do change, we hate it. Within two days, the slob returns.
We are too hard on ourselves. We want to be perfect, yet we hate working for it.
And we shouldn't have to. You don't have to.
Now that you have all failed at your New Years resolutions, what next
Chill. Go back to watching tv. Punch that future bastard in the nuts. You're never gonna be that person. And not because you can't be, but because you don't want to be. You think you do, but you don't.
People change. You are going to, too. And you're not going to want then, what you want now.
How this is different from not having New Years resolutions.
Because you do have a New Years resolution! One that you can't fail at. You don't have to work for it, either. Easy as abc.
I want you to procrastinate. Yes, I do. Pick a task, something unimportant.
And then not do it.
The reason New Years resolutions fail is because you give up on them. And you can't give up here; because you aren't doing anything.
Don't start. Don't do what you decided to do. Procrastination is the best form of work. It doesn't require you to do anything. Yet, you are working.
You
are mentally preparing yourselves for whatever task you set for
yourself.
And when you are actually ready. A day when the tv doesn't seem that interesting. When none of your friends are online on facebook and nothing interesting is going on Quora (a lie, something interesting is always going on on Quora), you'll actually do what you wanted to do.
And it'll be easy. Very easy.
And when you are actually ready. A day when the tv doesn't seem that interesting. When none of your friends are online on facebook and nothing interesting is going on Quora (a lie, something interesting is always going on on Quora), you'll actually do what you wanted to do.
And it'll be easy. Very easy.
;)