New Years is just around the corner and with that so are the Facebook posts about everyone's new 'New Year's Resolution'. About how everyone is going to get fit, go to the gym, advance at work, do this, do that. Well, this year I challenge you to make a very specific resolution and this isn't about your professional life. This isn't about your physical health. This is not even really about you.
I'm asking you to please consider making this pledge to yourself this New Years: I promise to try my very best to help those struggling, to open doors, to smile at strangers, to think before I judge, to do my research, to be well learned, to be considerate, to show that I care, to say I love you too much, to always say thank you, to always say I'm sorry, to forgive quickly, to banish hate from not only my vocabulary but from my mind. And most importantly I promise to be kind.
The world is a very scary place and I see it getting scarier with each passing day. I am only 19 years old and the amount of hate, prejudice, and false judgement I have seen in my lifetime is enough to turn anyone off of life. To make anyone question, "what is the point in all of this?" and to let it negatively effect the way my own mind works. But this year, I refuse. I refuse to be one of the many who throws slurs and curse words at strangers on the street purely because they cut me off. I don't want to be a part of the problem and I'm hoping you don't want to be either. If enough people decide they don't want to be the problem we, my friend, become the solution.
Now, I'm not asking you to not make the resolutions to get fit or whatever else tickles your fancy. I'm only asking you make this one as well. It doesn't take much, I promise. All you have to do is make a conscious decision every morning to be apart of the solution. And if you mess up? You must forgive yourself and move forward with your promise. Because the world is getting scarier. Wouldn't it be something if you could be the safe place for someone? even for just a second? It could be a stranger you smile at on the street. That smile could save that persons life.
It does not take much to be kind. So you have a choice,
This year, are you a part of the problem? Or are you apart of the solution?
