Green Oasis

I know you’re all waiting breathlessly to hear my New Year’s resolutions. Please resume respiration because they’re never coming. If I have a New Year’s resolution, it is an anti-resolution resolution. I hereby swear off resolutions for all New Year’s Days, present and future.

Every year, I go through the same self-deceiving charade of making resolutions as if my efforts were going to last past President’s Day (Martin Luther King Day, maybe). Resolutions did nothing more than make me feel crumby for failing at my self-appointed goals. In the ultimate end, I will probably still end up a little chubby, a little disorganized, a little poor, and a lot dead regardless of how many good intentions I gather up on the doorstep of another year. I’d rather die a little happier for not having made so many ineffectual and guilting New Year’s resolutions.

This doesn’t mean that I won’t set goals, of course, but there is a better way.

So here’s to some healthy perspective (and knowing when it’s better not to even try)! Oh, and I wish you all the best on your resolutions!