One of my greatest pet peeves is when someone judges a person for creating a goal that will positively affect their life. A close second is when someone outwardly doubts the other person's ability to complete a goal.
New Years Resolutions have always been a popular catalyst to help individuals reach a personal goal. Normally, people feel that with the start of a new year, a clean slate also appears. They have the next twelve months to accomplish anything that they could ever possibly want or need to accomplish. They decide that a healthier lifestyle would enrich their life, or that they need to save more money so that they can travel to their dream vacation, or they want to focus on their closest relationships only as to lessen the negativity they feel in their daily life.
All of these things are amazing goals to work towards, so why is it that three-quarters of the entire world seems to publicly loathe New Years Resolutions? I understand that historically these resolutions don't always work out, people get busy and focus on other things and before you know it the next year is smacking you in the face, but who cares? If the goal isn't reached in one year and a person dedicates themselves to work on it the next year, or every year of the rest of their life, how does that affect anyone else?
The thing is, some of these goals people make are highly personal, they take a lot of motivation to complete, and a constant nagging feeling after reading a friend's lengthy Facebook post complaining about how they hate seeing resolutions everywhere, isn't helping anyone. Just let people live their lives! If you don't want to make any personal goals, or if you don't want to post your goals on social media, that is fine, but stop hating on people that do.
I believe that we live in a highly judgmental culture. Every single person thinks or says something judgmental at least once a day and if don't agree you're lying to yourself. Either out of jealousy, hate, boredom, or for attention, people will make remarks about others that they come in contact with. I'm not innocent of doing it either, so I'm not preaching here, but I do think it's something that we all should be conscious of.
Just a thought, but maybe if the friends and family of a person working really hard to reach a goal, even a New Years Resolution, supported and encouraged them, rather than judging or verbalizing their doubt that that goal could be reached then maybe, just maybe, more people would be successful.
