New Year Resolution Reality

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain


This year I wasn't going to resolve to abstain, limit, or omit any one vice or bad habit in particular. I wasn't going to lose weight, curtail already curtailed drinking, adopt a new spending budget, stop cursing, or begin keeping a legitimate balance of my financial accounts as oppossed to the running totals I perpetually update in my head. Nope I was going for a clean sweep. A spiritual and physical reckoning if you will, a greater awareness of my shortcomings and the wisdom to forever change myself for the better. A monumental task indeed, but I was refreshed by the birth of a new year, steeled solidly against all bad influences that sought to wreck my entrenched abstinence of all things detrimental to my well being. But New Year's Day was on a Sunday, which just didn't seem like a good day to start something so refreshingly new, being the last day of the week and all. Then I had the day off on Monday, so it felt more like a Sunday than a Monday really, and now I find myself already living in conflict with my new edict here on Tuesday January 3, 2006. The resolution I set out to keep has already been compromised and my inadequate attempt at an idyllic existance has left me drained, disappointed to the state of inconsolable malaise.

Oh well, good thing there's always next year. Here's to you 2007 and a fresh start!

Feel free to post your New Year's resolution in the comments link because, really, what proof will there be that you ever made a resolution at all?