This Is The Year I Won't Forget? (Applying New Year's Resolutions)

When I was a child, spending weekends with my grands on the farm, my grandmother tried to explain to me how time would move faster as I became older.

- Dr. Marc Clark

I didn’t understand it then, but I get it now. It is hard to believe that another year has zipped by and a new one already steaming forward. And with each December changing into January each Chaitra changing into Baisakh in case of Nepal, comes a time of reflections and of setting New Year Resolutions. Last year at this time some of you might have been saying, “This year, things are going to be different. I’m going to be making some changes. I’m going to spend more time with my loved ones. More time serving others. I’m going to carry a different attitude at work. I’m going to look at and treat people differently. I’m going to become more professional, more likeable.”

So, let me ask a simple question. Whom among you stuck to those new year’s resolutions? I thought so. You know what they say about New Year’s resolutions, “They usually go in one year and out the other”. (Sorry, its my sense of humor).

Often this time of year, after the overindulgence of the holidays, we make resolutions to change our habits, behaviors, and our way of life. Each new year gives us the opportunity to better ourselves with a fresh start, a new beginning point. However, somewhere in the middle of January, we have forgotten the resolutions which we had promised ourselves and others, and have gone back to our old ways. Kind of like taking off those brand-new shoes and replacing them with our old sneakers because they just feel better. What happened to the resolutions? We just forgot about them.