I am so blessed to be able to experience a new, beautiful year on this earth. New beginnings hold so many unknowns within them, which what makes life so wondrous. This time of the year is great because everyone has a spark of motivation and enlightenment. They have goals that they are striving for, and people feel invincible. Bringing in a new year brings some of the most positive feelings all across the world, and I do think resolutions are one of the main things that bring us this positivity.

All over social media there are jokes, memes, gifs, etc. of the expression "new year, new me" because the saying is absolutely ridiculous in a literal aspect. Becoming a completely different person is not a resolution because deep down you will always be your true self. If someone needed to make that drastic of a change they would have done it on any given day, and not waited until it was finally a new year. Time is only a concept that humans hang onto, so we can technically make resolutions any day of our lives, but they tend to just have a better meaning and feeling when the a new year, new month, or even new week begin. Anyways, even though it is nearly impossible to become a completely different person, I do believe that we can gain new perspectives. That is why my new years resolution is "new year, new perspective."

The year of 2017 has many things we have to adjust to like not having a politician for president any longer. That is a huge adjustment all of us will have to endure, and even if you hate the fact of Trump being president, it still happened and we are still Americans. Now this is just a common example of how we can begin to gain a new perspective on an idea we may not want or like. I believe 2017 should be the year we put the negativity aside and make our mindset a clean slate. We need to open our hearts and minds up to the world and let new thoughts and questions invade our daydreams. A new perspective is what we all need.

Personally, my adjustments and perspectives will not be focused around our government, but more about myself. I know it sounds kind of selfish, but everyone needs to work on themselves sometimes. I already feel like I have a very open mind to everything that comes to me in life, but I am challenging myself even more to open my eyes. I want to understand the negative emotions that my body produces and figure out how to recreate them in a positive form. I want to understand why people disagree with me on different situations, and I want to be able to hear their side more than blocking them out. I want to understand what others are going through in third world countries and how I can help them. I want to understand what it is like to have a meaningful, significant other in my life that has mutual feelings toward me. My spectrum of things I am yearning to learn more about and understand can go on forever, but before I indulge into all of these wonderful things, I have to broaden my perspective because I was never able to or never tried to understand these things in the past.

Open your mind up to 2017.