Getting my blogging chops back in shape was a top resolution for 2009. Well, then I had to write and mail out a newsletter on the first day…and one thing led to another (predominantly BCS football games) and before you know it, New Year’s resolution #1 is kaput. The surprising thing is that I’m only a couple of days behind at this point and that feels kind of good.
Feeling good about ourselves at the beginning of a New Year I suppose is pretty common. Traditionally we’ve been taught that the New Year is a time for new beginnings, turning over a new leaf, getting back on the right course, and optimism abounds. It has always seemed particularly odd to me, though, that these emotions coincide with the making of “New Year Resolutions.” A list of typically unattainable goals…so that from the outset of any New Year we’ve already laid a foundation for failure, haven’t we? C’mon admit it, not that long into any New Year we’ll have let lapse all of those well intended thoughts of purpose and resolve and by March could hardly tell you what any of them were.
Well since my college days I’ve always kept my New Year’s resolutions short, simple and easily attainable. I also don’t make it a habit of writing them down anywhere to remind myself exactly what they had been…nope, when you don’t write anything down verbatim then you can’t be held accountable for missing the mark, can you? And I’ve become really good at letting myself slide along the way. After all shouldn’t my good intentions count for something?
Well, I won’t spoil the plan for this blog so soon into the New Year but I will invite you to stop back on a regular basis as I’ll begin an exercise of mental musings, peeling an onion that, at some point along the way, might just end up making both of us cry…but then isn’t laughter a good thing? Okay, I will give you a little hint. Long before we ever knew what a New Year Resolution was, didn’t we dream about what we’d want to be when we grew up? I guess I’m kind of curious about exploring how that’s been working for ya?
If all goes well, I’ll back at you soon enough…ever yours regardlessly,
the old-man at the mike-ro-phone
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