On Resolutions

Yeah..yeah we've made resolutions more often than we care to...and surely much more often than we've lived upto.

Every December, the promise that the new year holds is overwhelming. I guess the optimist in us always believes that the best is yet to come. What if life already is as good as it gets???

Then again, there's this part of us which believes that we should change somethings about ourselves. Always felt that resolutions are about undoing conscious choices made by us. Like stop drinking, quit smoking, reduce weight, find another job....(Guess all these would figure on the "Top Ten Most Popular New Year Resolutions".

Personally, I have come to the conclusion that resolving to do something is putting undue pressure on self. Furthermore, announcing the list in public is plain suicide.

Read somewhere that "realisation" is half atonement. So realising about things that are not right with your life is half the job done. Problem is...it's the easy half.

The more difficult half is actually changing and setting things right. But hey! Rome was'nt built in a day, was it??

As someone once said "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

So here's to change!!!