My Version of a New Year’s Resolution

Everyone has always been excited for another start of the Year. After the celebration of love, peace and giving, the year ends which is another call for a merrier and joyous New Year. Some would prepare a better feast than what has been prepared during Christmas because we usually believe that the more abundant the food the more blessing for the entire year. Everything has to be in the context of abundance for it would best start a blessed year.

Aside from the grandeur which indicates of how you would want your entire year to be, the other aspect of how people celebrate the start of another year is to emphasize a “New Year’s Resolution”. A New Year’s Resolution is actually about trying to enumerate either things or attitude of which you think of changing of keeping. The negative ones are those that you want to avoid or perhaps stop doing in general and the positive ones are those that you want to carry out maybe because your goal is to become a “better you”. Now I say that in my own point-of-view, the whole year round can always be a chance for change, and that everyday is an opportunity to learn and get better.

Believing in the concept of New Year’s Resolution sometimes makes us ending up in frustration. One reason is that one is actually focused on limiting oneself to a programmed desire for a change rather than allowing unexpected experiences that have a purpose of bringing out moral lessons. It’s not only during New Year that we need to be challenged for any attitude change but it is an everyday opportunity. All the time in the world is a chance for everyone to yearn for a better self. We may be confined with what tradition dictates but I guess, here is nothing wrong if we try to defy the usual thinking that New Year had always been everybody’s chance to set new things in becoming a better one. I hate to rationalize that with that kind of thinking, we always have to wait for a year to start improving. Too bad, if we have wasted some chances because we were waiting for a year to begin. What I am trying to point out is why we nee to wait, if we can have it immediately as much as we are willing to do so. Opportunities to grow as a person come everyday. We get to encounter situations every now and then that have something to do with increasing the level of maturity as human being. When the purpose of New Year’s Resolution is for attitudinal growth and personality development; it can happen in any instance if we are determined to do so.

With that, I believe that we can welcome change in our lives if we really want to. Its’ just matter of being certain about what we want to achieve. Though it has been a practice to have it during the start of the year within the concept of a so-called New Year’s resolution, we can always improve ourselves anytime we want to. Live life, learn lessons and always allow growth!