This new year marks the beginning of a new chapter in everyone's life. This new year probably started with everyone making New Year's resolutions. This tradition is one we all never fail to partake in. I can say from countless personal experiences that many of these New Year's resolutions are often unattainable. It isn't necessarily on purpose that many of us make them this way; we just like reaching for the stars. It is part of the tradition to think about what you want most to happen the next year. Many of those resolutions for many people include the topics of romance, body image, and finding oneself. The problems aren't the ideas and hopes behind these resolutions, but the resolutions themselves. We tend to make them unattainable.
The point of these resolutions is to create goals we wish to achieve and goals we can actually achieve. The tradition itself is a good one; it pushes us each to make ourselves better. The truth is we don't actually have to make resolutions if we don't want to because that isn't the point of the tradition. The point isn't the list itself but what you want to accomplish for yourself this upcoming year. Yes, the list helps and puts it in writing, but the point isn't that you have to make a list and the social need to; it's the individual and personal wanting to. The wanting to do certain things and accomplish certain things this year for yourself.
So if you want to make a list, go for it, but make resolutions that you can achieve and that you won't strain yourself trying to achieve. Make the most of the year ahead; start off by setting small goals in your life and then make your way to the big ones. Remember that you don't always have to accomplish everything you set out to that year; these can be lifelong goals. Such things as working harder on your academics, spending more time with family, and eating healthier, those kind of small acts that can create an even bigger change eventually. But the most important thing is to do it for yourself.
So for this new year hopefully you have set some good goals for yourself. Happy New Year.
