As the New Year approaches, it’s easy to be called in somewhat of a stump. The New Year celebration has turned from a simple act of bringing in the new year to people trying to better themselves in the form of resolutions—things they hope to change when the New Year approaches. Over the year’s resolutions have gone from things like losing weight, and eating healthy to leaving toxic people behind, working on issues stemming from one’s self, or even simply abstaining from love or the dating world. The resolutions have somewhat affected people’s lives in small yet big ways. While cutting off toxic people is fine, and less or no dating is great you begin to somewhat isolate yourself from the world. It’s important to make resolutions, in my opinion, because it shows that you are evolving, and you notice the bad quirks or things that you’ve indulged in this year, but you shouldn’t fixate your whole year on resolutions to the point where the year itself has passed you by and you have done nothing but ponder and pick at the pieces of your life.

In my opinion, when making resolutions I chose to be very vague, and not necessarily speak something out in the air. I chose to keep it in the back of my head, and when the new year approaches I simply think of my resolutions when making very important decisions. I don’t let the resolution control me, but lead me somewhat into making decisions. I defiantly don’t base my whole year off these resolutions, and try to fix the things that I’ve noticed are broken, because in time things do happen to get solved or fix for you. Sometimes resolutions don’t need to be made, because with a little guidance from the universe, and common sense you could solve these issues on your own. Like I’ve stated before I simply feel as if resolutions should lead, or sway you, but not control you to the point where you’re so consumed by fixing your life that you accidently mess with something that was not broken.

Really, though, you shouldn’t wait till New Years to start wanting to better yourself, but you should really be doing that all throughout the year. You should be making yourself better so that when the New Year does come you aren’t plagued with resolutions, but you can go throughout the year continuing to better yourself, and know that a resolution won’t be necessary because you are already becoming the person you want to be. So when looking at 2017 if you make resolutions, or even if you don’t you should always want to be a better person. Try spending the new year bettering yourself, and giving self- love the top spot on the resolution chart.