well...holy-holidays...
if you survived starting your christmas shopping on 12/24, your parents 4:30am battle before they left for the airport, an obscene amount of drinking and dancing, that killer cold/flu you got from everyone in the office, the fact that you worked the day after christmas- maybe on christmas, lack of sleep, and 10+ shots of who-knows-what on NYE...
then you probably woke up this tuesday-told yourself that you're moving out of your parents house, quitting drinking and sleeping-in the whole weekend.
(partially true)
but you actually probably found yourself on the topic of your "new years resolution"
yeah, new years is a little over-rated. but there is something particularly great about it...
everyone celebrates the new year.
-or at the very least, everyone thinks of their new years resolution at some point.
what is it about the end of the year that makes you realize that you need to do something differently next year?
maybe its me- but your strolling along in november, everything is peaches and cream- then by the time you hit december everything goes haywire! like the world wobbles a little more off its rocker than usual.
really though- the amount of things you hear happening just before christmas and new years makes july through september feel like they never happened. december must be the month were everyone moves towns, breaks-up, quits or loses their job, jumps in front of a train, pinches a nerve, or starts a fire in their kitchen attempting to cook for everyone.
pure madness. right?
is this why we put this whole "new years resolution" in place...to destroy whatever happened or didn't happen from the past to create a new slate for future?
a whole lot happens in a year, you know.
you think that nothing happens day by day, until you look back on NYE and whoosh...that was 2012?
nothing really hit it home quite like sitting in a circle with the same people you brought in 2012 with- thinking about where we are today from where we were back in january...at the start of it all.
the crew, sitting in a circle about to play catch phrase. no one had brought up the "what are you up to now" question until that moment. im so happy that someone did...
it was a whole year with and without each other. we had graduated, moved away, spoke once a month- maybe a little more, but only have seen each other on sporadic occasions. it wasn't awkward being back together for the first time in 6 months...in fact- for the amount of things we have all been through since graduation- it felt like nothing changed. (cearly- we were back to playing catch phrase)
how was life right now? well...it was unanimous- everything sucked outside of this. (this circle of friends that we grew-up together with, grew apart from, and came back together to be with)
of course everything doesn't really suck- but at that moment, nothing was greater than being back together.
it was great. everyone was happy. what was better than being happy?
i once read that "if your life is like a research project of what you can expect from this world, any new piece of new evidence makes a difference"
so- with that said, why not take the evidence from our past and apply it to our future. make the past the past.
isn't that what growing up is all about?
whatever your 2012 was, take that and do more with it in 2013. maybe it was your 2012-self that realized that you need to be a little more confident, or that boy that broke your heart did not define who you were or what you have yet to be, that job you worked so hard at only worked you to the bone, that by saying no to everything left you wondering what you missed out on, that you needed to take chances, read more, find a job, work harder, get an A, be a better person...
and okay- maybe get to the gym more.
i look back at NYE night and can only think of one thing i want in 2013...to be happy.
if it's one thing that my life research project (as of 22 years...) has taught me to expect from this world...that if you do what makes you happy, everything in life will be a little bit better.
are you still sitting on the fence about what your new years resolution should be?
simple. all those thing that didn't happen, or did- just not the way you planned in 2012...are yours for the making in 2013.
make it simple, solid- but make it something that you actually will think about 1 year from now and say..
"damn, i made it happen"
there is nothing better than looking back on the past and feeling like the future should be something to look forward to, even if it involves a clean slate.
say hello to 2013- the future, and get out there and make things happen. that is it.
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