And I Stopped Making New Year Resolutions!!!

nayanapremnath (41)in #life • 7 years ago (edited)

We all are guilty of forming resolutions every new year, in spite of it sticking or not. And 90% of the time, it clearly does not. But does that stop us from making more the next year? And the year after?

And like most of you, I was no better. I had made myself a list of resolutions for the year 2017. Some of them were impossible to get done, some of them quite easy to have completed. But nonetheless, the end result - NOT ONE OF IT GOT DONE!!

A screenshot from my phone notes

Now let me explain why none of it happened.

- Read a Book a month

Reading was a daily habit for me all through my school life. But the moment I left for college, it just started going down. Eventually, by the end of 5 years of college, I rarely read a book. The smartphones had become prevalent by then. For a person who did not even finish a book or two in a whole year, it was nothing short of impossible to have undertaken a book a month. In short --- STUPID RESOLUTION!

- Listen to a new album every month

I am a Singer, but listening to new tracks has become rare for me. I would only recognise a track when someone mentioned it and then I looked it up. I kept listening to a few all-time favourite ones of mine. And I did not download any streaming apps either. And for such a person, listening to a new album every month would never have worked. Nah huh.

- Get paid for your passion

So well, I guess I sort of got that done. But not really.. I became a YouTuber a year back and well, it wasn't a platform I chose to earn through. As I was well aware that it pays you negligible money. Hence I started freelancing as a Voice Over Artist. And though it wasn't something I'd known I could do, nor my passion, it was indeed something that I enjoyed doing, through which I made some cash. But I'm not sure whether it counts as a cash earning passion!

- Talk to one stranger every month

Erm. I cannot believe that I made a resolution like this. I mean, really?? Talk to one every month? I've probably talked to dozens in a single month. And I'm a talkative person too. So why would I need to make that an objective, I wonder. Okay, I admit that I was plain dumb to write this one.

- Write one positive thing every single day.

That's just a lot of pressure on me. I'm not a very optimistic person (though I want to be) and such a person wouldn't have been able to write 365 positive things. Even at my most optimistic, I could maybe manage 50??
No more pressure on yourself girl, no more!

- Volunteer

Aaaaah. This one, I really do wish I could have done. But with my wedding planning and everything, I should have known it wouldn't have happened. This one, I still hope to do. But without keeping any expectations. fingers crossed

- Draw the same thing for 30 days in a row

I think this happened thanks to a video about how our artistic skills can improve if we try doing the same thing every day for over a month. But being a lazy person, I probably knew while I wrote it down, that it would never happen. It may have happened for a day or two, but not anymore. I probably got a bit carried away after watching the video, I'm sure.

- Don't use the phone for one whole day every month

This is probably the most necessary action that I need to execute immediately. Because I have become way too addicted to my phone/s. But then I don't know whether I have the willpower to get that done as I am sure that I will crave for it, in just an hour. But this one, I cannot put a verdict on, just yet. I will hope to make it happen some day.

- Learn html and css

Why oh why? I ask myself over and over again? I have already learned too many software in a year. My brain would have electrocuted if not for some break. And I don't intend to be a coder or a web designer either. So this one, I'm going to cut off, for good.

- Organise rooms

Well, the apartment that we've gotten is a tiny one with space for absolutely nothing. And hence mess starts accumulating everywhere. I have tried to clean it all up. But it comes back out in a couple of days. Blame me and @spaceninja for being lazy people in general. So organising never happened and probably won't until we shift to a new place. Even then, with our luck, the place will get disorganised in no time. :-(

So there! You see now how I've realised that these numerous resolutions that I write up every year, just becomes a huge disappointment at the end of the year. So hereby I declare that I'm no more doing these NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS anymore. I'd rather just take unplanned decisions along the way and get any sort of stuff done in the process.