Ananda

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I certainly did, but now it’s all over, and it’s always sad to say goodbye to Christmas—it goes so quickly. However, it’s New Year’s Eve, and that means tomorrow it will be 2015. New Year’s is all about getting a fresh start and wiping the slate clean. You can forget all the bad things that have happened in the last year and start anew. Why not start the New Year as a new version of yourself?

It’s really weird, because all New Year’s is is time passing, and we never celebrate time passing any other day of the year. But it’s the beginning, and it encourages people to do things they’ve always intended to do—hence, new year’s resolutions. Some of the most common are to get fit, save money, manage stress, quit smoking, stop drinking, and surprisingly, recycling.

The thing about new year’s resolutions is that if you don’t stick to them—if you have a cigarette after a few weeks, or you don’t exercise as you wanted, or, God forbid, you forget to put that bottle in the recycling bin—you end up feeling bad. Then you begin to reject the resolution in the first place, because you’re putting yourself under that pressure. That’s why I refuse to take part in resolutions. But if it encourages you to get healthy, or try something new, then go for it…and tell me how it goes! ♦