Year end is steadily approaching and the dreaded question you need to ask yourself is, ‘Have I kept all the New Year’s resolutions I made this year?’
More often than not, that answer is no. Even those people whose resolution is to not make any resolutions, find something during the year that they vow to change. Some last quite long into the year without going back on their word, while others don’t even last a few minutes. Take Uncle Bobby for example who promised to give up drinking during 2016 and then proceeded to have a shot as soon as the clock struck midnight to toast in the new year. That wasn’t the first, or last time that Uncle Bobby indulged himself either.
After breaking his resolution within the first few minutes, he figured he may as well just continue drinking and try again in 2017.
Uncle Bobby’s wife, Aunty Sally, is just as guilty of failing to keep resolutions.
Aunty Sally promised to stop craning her neck over the fence and listening to the neighbour’s fighting. She also made a resolution to stop spreading the gossip, something which hasn’t happened.
In Aunty Sally’s defence though, how can you not want the street to know that the Naidoo’s are having marital problems because the husband, Rajesh, comes home late at night, always drunk and never has time for his wife.
Their son Mariemuthu Indresan Naidoo, known to his friends as Thumbi, is apparently on drugs. But you didn’t hear that from me.
As the year winds down, have you thought about what resolutions you didn’t keep too and what you would like to change for the coming year?
Are you the type that believes in resolutions or do you think if you want to change things, you shouldn’t have to wait for the start of a new year to do so?
Whatever you do and however you view new years’ resolutions, if you do decide to change something, do so because you want to do so.
Not because you’re trying to impress someone else.
Too often we change to please others and once they leave, we are left wondering why we were stupid in the first place.
Also, don’t be like Uncle Bobby, don’t give up at the first failure.
The only way to truly grow is to learn from your mistakes and pick yourself after you’ve fallen down. When the year is all said and done, you can lift your head up high, have a Bells and say you did it.
