No New Year Resolutions

Every January the 1st, like thousands of people around the globe, your writer here always makes New Year’s Resolutions. Seeing that I failed to fulfil most of my resolutions from last year, I have decided not to make any this year. At the end of the day, making a resolution shouldn’t be the driver in my life. I do things because I want to do them. Full stop.

Nevertheless, I realise that I must lose weight. Having people asking me all the time if I was pregnant back in Spain really didn’t help my selfsteem. I do know that this is the fattest I’ve ever been in my life, however, I adore food and losing weight is going to be really hard for me. I enjoy food and having a resolution that stops me from enjoying my only vice in life is simply utterly unfair.

Maybe I shoud start smoking and binge drinking, so I could give those up and feel better about the amounts of food that I eat. That is the problem about not having any real vices… you never find anything serious to give up! Because, what else is there that I should change about myself? According to lots of websites, these are the most common New Year’s Resolutions around the world:

1) Lose weight. Ok. Got that covered.
2) Exercise. Hopefully playing Wii games will be enough.
3) Quit smoking and drinking. I’ve never smoked and I barely drink that much. Nothing here to worry about.
4) Get out of debt. If we don’t count the mortgage, I have no debts.
5) Spend more time with family and friends. We see this side of the family often enough, but yes, we need to socialise more. I just love my home and my home-comforts…

Okay, I’ll be serious. There are things that need to change in my life. But they aren’t that type of things that one would include in a New Year’s Resolutions list. They are more “mental” things, like, I’d like to learn a new language, or even, teach Jon Spanish; I’d like to be better at my job; I’d like to be a better person overall, find my inside peace; I’d like to be a better writer… etc.

So, yeah, this year I won’t impose any of those resolutions on myself, and maybe, out of spite, the stars will conspire against me and make my life just the way it should be.