The new years resolution

   Some people think it's old fashioned, but I make a new years resolution every year. I'm pretty serious about it. I start formulating it in December. I think about all the things I didn't get done on my previous resolution, I analyse why it didn't get done, determine if it is worth putting on the new list, and go from there.
I put 10 items on my list, every year. Why not 12? I don't know, I ask my OCD that all the time, it never answers. I type them up on pretty paper and post them prominetly on my desk. This year, thanks to windows 7, I made it a permanent post-it note. (yeah, post-it notes for the desktop!!!!)
   Why all the fuss, you ask? There is something momentus about a new year. It's fresh, there was never this year before and there will never be this year again. It's a new begining, a chance to make big changes. It's an opportunity to use an entire year as a timeline to progress toward a better future. Most people want to be better people. Some people procrastinate, and an entire year is like a lifetime in front of them, they can take their time. But December come quickly, and it gets here faster every year, and suddenly the time is to short; another broken resolution to add to the pile of long broken ones. Some people are "Johnny on the spot", out of the gate full of fire. By mid-year, all the wind has left their sails, already defeated by goals that were impossible to meet in the first place they discard their resolutions as pipe dreams, never attainable. Some people set their goals, pace themselves, evaluate progress often, and don't sweat it if they don't make all of them. (I have never meet one of these people, but I am told they DO exist.)
   Yet every year, those of us who choose to, set new goals. It just seems like the right thing to do on new years. It's like eating black eyed peas and turnip greens for luck and money. There is no real reason for it, other than we have always been told it's what you do. It's not like you can't do it at any time of the year, but it just doesn't have the same meaning any other time than new years.
  So I made my new 10, and I snuck down to Daddy's and had black eyed peas and turnip greens. Call me old fashioned, let's see what happens.