*Disclaimer: This article may offend some people, but if you read until the end, I am sure you can find a decent lesson in there somewhere. Or at the very least, you can have something to rant to your friends about!
It is a new year, and we all know what that means: we are all going to try to be better versions of ourself and in some cases attempt to be someone else entirely. The problem with these “resolutions” that we all make is that they are either wrongfully placed, or they do not last. Wanting to lose weight and spend less money are both great resolutions, but they do not necessarily challenge one’s mind in any particular way. And while wanting to live life to the fullest and spend more time with friends and family are more noble resolutions, they again lack something.
The biggest problem with all New Year's resolutions is that they are things that someone should be working on all the time. Waiting until the beginning of a year to be a better person seems a little apathetic. We should not need a holiday to tell us that it is time to improve ourselves; in some cases, the New Year can be an excuse to procrastinate on our self-improvement.
For me personally the New Year does not really have much more value than indicating that another 365 days of my life have flown by. People assume that another year passing is going to have some otherworldly effect on how they act. Going from one year into another does not automatically mean that we are going to be new people. I am against the “new year new me” statement. If I can be frank for a moment, I will tell you that the saying should be “a new year an older me” because then at least it would be accurate and honest. If you did not want to go to the gym or eat a salad on June 5th, then you are not gonna wanna eat one now. And whether you want to spend $150 on a giant bean bag chair or $6 on Starbucks instead of saving money, you are gonna do it regardless of what month we are in. As for spending more time with your loved ones and taking full advantage of the life you have, those are things that should be done every day of every year for as long as you are on this Earth.
The point that I am trying to convey here is that improving yourself should not have to be a chore and it surely should not happen because you are about to turn a year older. I believe that we all owe it to ourselves to keep improving regardless of age or time. We should all want to be better people year round, not just for a couple of weeks in the beginning of the New Year. We should have enough self-worth to want to make ourselves the best version that we possibly can, and the only way that we will achieve this is by taking our New Year's resolutions from an annual phenomenon to an everyday occurrence.
