New Year Resolutions: How many did you fulfill?

Hello great people. Today i shall be looking at a very popular things most people do whenever the year is about to wrap up. 

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It is not new to hear people ask: What are your new year resolutions? They practically think that there are things you did wrongly in the just concluding (or concluded) year and think you should write ways you can avoid them down and probably look at new ways to achieve some designed goals. 

What do you think about new year resolutions? Do people follow it to the end? Or they just write them for writing sake so that people would think they always map out the goals they intend to achieve?

New year resolutions contain list of things that happened in the year that just ended or about to end. They are those things people write down to cross-check their steps in the new year. It could be to change their sense of dressing, undesired behaviors, set out goals which they want to achieve and to improve on their 'self'. They are to guide the person in his/her new journey in a new year. Basically, they are written promises made to yourself on how to improve your life in the new year.

The ancient Babylonians are said to have been the first people to make New Year’s resolutions, some 4,000 years ago. They were also the first to hold recorded celebrations in honor of the new year—though for them the year began not in January but in mid-March, when the crops were planted. source 

Sometimes i asked: what makes a 'year' new? Is it because the Gregorian Calendar ends at 31 of December or because the world is actually new in the sense 'new'? Do not forget that we have different time zones. Central African Time is one hour ahead of West African Time. New York is 5-6 hours behind Nigeria time. So when is new year? The time Nigeria celebrates her own or when New York celebrates her's?

Also, While Gregorian Calendar is the most accepted, their are other calendars for instance the Islamic Calendar. So what makes a new year 'new'?

So to the resolution proper, i have seen many people tell me this is my new year resolutions. I wont do this, i wont do that. Mostly, these people are able to monitor and carry out these laid down dos and don'ts. But for how long? I say mostly three months! Yeah! Some of them just give up, some felt let me also try new things, some are left helpless to repeat those things they said they wont do.

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Life itself is simple but complex to live in. So why do we want to make it more complex? Writing down something in a piece of paper and making it control you (because practically that is what the paper is doing) is absurd to me. It is not as if you have understood life and felt i must do this to get this or i must avoid this in order not to get this.

Things in reality are more complicated than that. The idea of writing or conceptualizing an idea or ideas and making them rule you as an individual is beyond my comprehension.

So what am i saying? New year resolutions are just fairy-tales or science fiction written by an imaginary director to perfect life and everything that is in it. Hardly do people fulfill 20% of those things they wrote down as their new year resolution.

It is good to have new ways of looking into life! You can see life from new angles, try new (positive) things. Do away from things you consider bad and adopt those you think are good. But do not write down your life in a piece of paper or any diary! 

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