Why New Year’s resolutions aren’t stupid
Since when is self-reflection a bad thing?
So, New Year’s Eve came faster than I anticipated this year. I feel as if I just began college and now I’m already one semester down.
Before I knew it people all around me were busy buying sparkly clothing and champagne and I could hardly remember what year it was and what year was to come.
The entire nation prepares to party away the last hours of the year and welcome in the new one. The days before New Year’s Eve, I was scrolling through my Twitter feed as a teenage girl does over her college break, and I noticed all of these articles about New Year’s Eve.
These articles weren’t about the partying or celebration, but instead about how a resolution is stupid.
Everyone was making fun of the “new year new me” phrases and condemning those who want change.
Excuse me? How dare people make fun of others who are trying to make a change in their life?
I’m not entirely sure how this anti-resolution clan began, perhaps it’s leftover stigmas from those Brooklyn hipsters, or perhaps people are just blind to self-reflection.
New Year’s is my favorite holiday. I get chills at the 10 second countdown before the New Year begins because I know it’s a marker of time where I can decide to do better, act better, and be better.
The day of New Year’s Eve should be a time to party but before that a time to self-reflect.
What did I accomplish this year and how did I accomplish it? What didn’t I get to this year and how can I make sure to achieve it this year? How can I do better, act better and be better?
Making a Resolution is about congratulating yourself for your accomplishments but also swallowing your pride and realizing you do not know how to react in every situation. What stopped you from dealing with 2015’s complications poorly and how can you stop that from happening again.
I made mistakes in 2015 and I can’t wait to make a bunch more this year as long as they’re different than those of 2015. Repeating the same mistakes makes you stuck.
Do you really want to be stuck as an 18 year old high school student? Because I’m ready to move on and discover new things about myself and add on to my previous resolutions.
Your 2000 resolutions are just as important as your new ones. Each year you add instead of replace your goals that lead you to who you want to be. The New Year is a perfect time to self-reflect, because in our busy lives it’s hard to make a change “just because.”
Next time somebody tells you that your resolution is stupid, just politely disregard it because you know your goal and your goals are for you and you only not the rest of the world anyways. Accomplish things for yourself not all the New Year’s haters.
This year I vow to do better, act better and be better and I hope you all do the same.