New Year Resolutions (2019)
This is the time of the year when everyone likes to make resolutions. But a meagre percentage of us keep them in mind throughout the year, forget about adhering to them.
'But', you cliche, 'aren't resolutions made to be broken?'
'Perhaps', I counter. 'But what about promises? Are they meant to be broken, too?'
Now, that's food for thought.
If you review your past, how many promises have you broken? Why don't you resolve this new year not to make impulsive promises that will trouble your conscience later on? Stop giving false assurances and hopes to people so that you break fewer hearts?
If you promise yourself to achieve something, visualise it down to its miniature steps so that each tiny conquest will reassure you that you are on course to achieve something lofty.
As for myself, I'm going to make two resolutions: to cut down flab and cut out toxic people. Maggie complains that my paunch is growing bigger than my wisdom and that my midsection looks like a beer paunch. I remind her that I don't drink beer, and that she's the one behind my paunch. And before and after: her delicious food has made me crave for more each day, thereby causing a bulge; after, because she's after me to shrink it now. As for the wisdom part, the less said the better.
Coming to my second resolution, I have decided to revisit it. Now it will be, "I will start embracing toxic people" so that it can kill the toxicity in them. How does it sound? Isn't it better than cutting them loose?
These are my resolutions. What about yours?
Dominic A Mathias
Dec 31, 2018
'But', you cliche, 'aren't resolutions made to be broken?'
'Perhaps', I counter. 'But what about promises? Are they meant to be broken, too?'
Now, that's food for thought.
If you review your past, how many promises have you broken? Why don't you resolve this new year not to make impulsive promises that will trouble your conscience later on? Stop giving false assurances and hopes to people so that you break fewer hearts?
If you promise yourself to achieve something, visualise it down to its miniature steps so that each tiny conquest will reassure you that you are on course to achieve something lofty.
As for myself, I'm going to make two resolutions: to cut down flab and cut out toxic people. Maggie complains that my paunch is growing bigger than my wisdom and that my midsection looks like a beer paunch. I remind her that I don't drink beer, and that she's the one behind my paunch. And before and after: her delicious food has made me crave for more each day, thereby causing a bulge; after, because she's after me to shrink it now. As for the wisdom part, the less said the better.
Coming to my second resolution, I have decided to revisit it. Now it will be, "I will start embracing toxic people" so that it can kill the toxicity in them. How does it sound? Isn't it better than cutting them loose?
These are my resolutions. What about yours?
Dominic A Mathias
Dec 31, 2018
