we're all just waiting.
Waiting for happiness, waiting to live, waiting to die;
waiting for a sign to pop up and show us how to do any of that.
Me--I'm just waiting to start waiting.
What is it exactly about a 'new year' that makes everyone insist on a change?
You realize of course that there is no magic in the air around December 31st, right?
The calendar we live by--which appropriates the New Year, is wholly man made.
Created by minds just like ours thousands of years ago.
The New Year could just as easily have begun on June 23rd or February 21st or April 17th.
So what is it that happens on December 31st to suddenly spark hope and change and motivation in the hearts and minds of the masses?
Before that clock strikes 12, we resolve to lose weight, run more, eat better, be nicer, go green, study harder, read our Bibles, quit smoking...the list goes on and on.
But if we are honest with ourselves, these resolutions are just silly and all for naught.
If you had truly planned to change these things could you not have done so a month ago, a week ago?
Tell me why exactly the New Year must be about change?
Does anyone ever resolve to just not gain weight, eat no more, not be meaner, not study less?
Does anybody ever resolve to just exist?
that is all.
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