Thursday, January 2, 2014

And on the 2nd day

It occurred to me that my post from yesterday really looked like a resolution.

I didn’t intend for it to be that way; I had been thinking about traditions.  Our tradition is to spend the day with friends.  It was a brief visit this year because my wife and I were absolutely exhausted but it was fun.  We look forward to it each year even though we don’t always make it.  That was really all I was thinking, how the day has engendered traditions.

I don’t make even make resolutions.  I try to look at my life and since I do see the first day of the year as a significant, well, signifier of change, I look for ways to improve on what I did in the previous year.

OK, I make resolutions.

But I didn’t mean to make a post about how resolutions shouldn’t be restrictive let alone necessary and then go ahead and make a resolution.  It was just something that I had been thinking about that I wanted to share, that’s all.  We should take advantage of every day as best we can.  I am by far not the best at doing this, but I thought it was a good way to approach things.

Oh well, be good and have a good year.

I have to go write a sonnet now.

2 comments:

pasoc said...

So your resolution is to make no resolutions?

beatthereaper said...

It sounds like that, doesn't it? What I try to do is keep the resolution anxiety out of it, but I really do make resolutions. I just don't call them that so you really are right.