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To those who have a New Year's resolution, good for you nobody cares. And you definitely don't need to post about your resolution on Facebook, or any other social network for that matter. Chances are you're not going to go through with it, and you're more than likely going to give up after the first two weeks, or maybe if you're lucky you'll last a month. But, if you do go through with it, congratulations, again nobody cares.
Let's start off by talking about the biggest New Year's resolution fad everybody attempts to follow; getting fit and going to the gym. You decide to begin your new year wasting money and paying a start-up fee at a gym, good for you. You get to the gym feeling really great, and truly not knowing what you're doing; taking up machines, weight racks, and pissing off people who are actually there every day trying to better themselves. I am no gym rat, but I do know the feeling of going to the gym with a huge crowd of people who were never there before the first of the year and are just there for a few days taking up every machine, and it is extremely agitating.
Aside from going to the gym another New Year's resolution bullsh**t fad is eating healthy. Don't get me wrong, I understand people love their healthy food, but those people learn to eat healthy on a daily basis on their own because they wanted to see a serious change, not because "new year new me." It isn't easy to portion your food or calorie count. Nor do you want to go to the grocery store and spend extra money buying healthy foods. Chances are, you end up doing this for the "two-week trial period" and then you give up because you see a piece of chocolate cake or you crave a fast food burger, and you just can't help yourself.
Drinking less as a New Years fad, that's a funny one. Those who drink, are going to drink regardless of their New Year's resolution. Most people want to get really wasted the night of New Year's Eve, but end up feeling like shit the next morning. So they wake up and say to themselves, "My New Year's resolution is to stop drinking, or at least, slow down." But the next weekend or maybe two weekends later you really don't want to change. You get invited to a bar and then someone offers to buy you shots, and whoops there goes your New Year's resolution right out the window. If you really wanted to quit drinking or slow down to "save your liver" it shouldn't take a hangover to make you do it.
Saving money as a resolution is such crap because everybody should already be trying to save money on a daily basis, not just after New Years. You should want to put money aside for that house, or car, or even children's college funds, etc... already. Saving money is so vital for your life it's unreal. People don't understand the importance of it, and once New Year's comes around people are like, "Oh I need to save money for something in my life because seeing my bank account actually scares me." When people make this resolution they usually don't end up saving money, but if they do there is a minimal amount in their savings account and the saying goes something like this "Well I still have x amount in my account, so I will be okay," while taking $10 out a day to buy cigarettes or something pointless like that.
Which brings me to another ridiculous New Years resolution fad that nobody sticks with; quit smoking. All I have to say is good luck. One day of the year saying, "I am going to quit on the first" is not meaningful at all. If you truly want to quit no matter how hard it is, you will find every way to quit. I am no smoker, but it looks hard, and I am sure it is hard, but just because it is the first day of the year doesn't mean you actually want to do something to stop. Saying you're going to quit smoking is like saying you are going to quit drinking water... Doubtful. I have faith people can do it, but not in the beginning of the year, that's a load of crap.
New Year's resolutions are bullshit. Not only because you don't stick with them, but because you shouldn't need the first day of the year to change yourself. If you truly want to see a change in yourself you're going to do it the day that thought crosses your mind, and stick with it, not just make it a two-week thing starting at the beginning of the year. Chances are, if you made a New Years resolution you'll still be the same damn person at the end of the year as you were in the beginning.
