The (UN) Fortunate Reality Of Resolutions

Welcome to the dastardly month, which claims the most victims of failed New Year resolutions, according to the Internet. But are all our prospects that dismal?

- Valerie Wong

As guileless eyes still glisten from the final traces of fireworks that hang in the sky, and industrious hearts combat the effects of overeating, we sometimes find ourselves in a limbo where our body has yet to catch up with our mind. Wake up, honey. It is already February. While some are busy putting the “resolve” in resolution, we are perhaps more familiar with the bunch who see the “dissolution” of their hopes and dreams every year end.

Identifying with the latter, this writer is burdened with numerous questions on why resolutions seem to fall flat the very moment they are made, and why we continue to make them year after year anyway. Failure weaves itself intricately between the incomplete P90X schedule and the forlorn vegan meal preps, but unpacking the phrase “New Year resolution” will divulge the innate recipe for catastrophe that it is.

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