It's a new year and there’s so much hope, so much possibility, so much optimism that comes with so many resolutions, and so many new days to fix your life... and so overwhelming to think of it all. Online, half of social media is filled with motivational quotes that are a version of, New Year, New Me’, and the other half is filled with memes that go, Day 10: It’s been such a difficult year already!’ And with them come the choices of how to think of the night between 31st and Ist: a new dawn that will change you as a person, or another dawn in the long and endless loop of exhaustion we call life?
A downward spiral
We've all chosen the former and continue to) in wisdom or stupidity—or both—and have all been through and continue to go through) the five stages of The Resolution Experiment over the first 10 days of January, that eventually leads us to the path of the latter:
Stage 1: Illusion. I have put together a list of resolutions and I will do EVERYTHING on it every day. NewYearNewMe.
This story is from the January 14, 2023 edition of Brunch.
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