Why New Year's is Overrated
New Year, New You! Time to get back into shape! Take up a hobby! Reinvent yourself! Self-help specialists and newspapers everywhere bombast us with phrases like these. A new year is approaching, and with it, is evidently a new you. Because the some numbers on a calendar change, apparently we must, too. Apparently a method for counting human existence equates progress in our own little lives. Well, here is a "demotivational" post, it doesn't.
So, we're approaching 2019—what an accomplishment! A new year seems like a new horizon, like we must be getting closer to something. And yes, sometimes change is great and making a better life for ourselves, but I think that people are just using a new year as an excuse to get their life together. Before I tear into New Year's resolutions, let me preface this by commending us for wanting to make our lives better. It's important to be able to see a problem or point of improvement in our lives and want to change. And that can be really hard sometimes. And it's even harder to actually do anything about it.
Now, why is all the New Year's ado stupid. Well, for starters, the practice of examining how to have a better life shouldn't be contained to one week in January that's filled with as much champagne and balloons as it is empty promises. Yes, because nothing says getting your life together like alcohol and late night parties...Again, let's be aware of ourselves, our lives, how we feel, all year round, not just when we throw out an old calendar.
On to my next issue: no one keeps their New Year's resolution! So everyone makes a big deal about what they're going to be doing. They post about it online, tell their friends, buy a bunch of supplies, and then proceed to do nothing. All that pomp and circumstance (and money—yikes) for nothing. Please, don't tell me all about how you're going to take up krav maga for thirty minutes just to sit on your couch all day. I don't care that much about lies, dear.
So let's throw out New Year's resolutions all together, and maybe make little adjustments throughout the year that we will actually keep. And if you slip a little, so what? Try again, because real changes don't happen at the flip of a calendar and don't have an expiration date. No more sweeping declarations, just little changes to make you a better you, certainly not a new one. You are already lovely, and it's up to you (not the year) to decide if there is something you want to change.
Let's make meaningful changes in our lives, not just buy a pair of yoga pants
Good luck with 2019...and every year after,
Christina
So, we're approaching 2019—what an accomplishment! A new year seems like a new horizon, like we must be getting closer to something. And yes, sometimes change is great and making a better life for ourselves, but I think that people are just using a new year as an excuse to get their life together. Before I tear into New Year's resolutions, let me preface this by commending us for wanting to make our lives better. It's important to be able to see a problem or point of improvement in our lives and want to change. And that can be really hard sometimes. And it's even harder to actually do anything about it.
Now, why is all the New Year's ado stupid. Well, for starters, the practice of examining how to have a better life shouldn't be contained to one week in January that's filled with as much champagne and balloons as it is empty promises. Yes, because nothing says getting your life together like alcohol and late night parties...Again, let's be aware of ourselves, our lives, how we feel, all year round, not just when we throw out an old calendar.
On to my next issue: no one keeps their New Year's resolution! So everyone makes a big deal about what they're going to be doing. They post about it online, tell their friends, buy a bunch of supplies, and then proceed to do nothing. All that pomp and circumstance (and money—yikes) for nothing. Please, don't tell me all about how you're going to take up krav maga for thirty minutes just to sit on your couch all day. I don't care that much about lies, dear.
So let's throw out New Year's resolutions all together, and maybe make little adjustments throughout the year that we will actually keep. And if you slip a little, so what? Try again, because real changes don't happen at the flip of a calendar and don't have an expiration date. No more sweeping declarations, just little changes to make you a better you, certainly not a new one. You are already lovely, and it's up to you (not the year) to decide if there is something you want to change.
Let's make meaningful changes in our lives, not just buy a pair of yoga pants
Good luck with 2019...and every year after,
Christina
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