I try to save any sort of resolutions until the second of January. This is partially because I don’t want to be influenced by everyone else’s, but mostly because I am like most people - I give most of New Year’s Day to the night before. This means I’m not in any state to make life goals.
This year, I’m going to be physically healthier. I’ve spent most of my adult life patching myself up mentally from making bad decisions, but I’ve been genuinely happy and healthy mentally, and it’s time I started taking the same interest in my body.
I’m going to let a lot more things go. I’ve been so high strung these past two years that my temper and attitude have just been terrible. Mercifully, I didn’t harm any of the relationships I’ve developed with it, but there’s no telling what sort of awful person I can be if I don’t relax a little and stop stressing over every little thing.
This also means I’m going to do more things I love. This includes finally writing something like I keep telling people I will do when I have the free time to do it (Hello post graduate unemployment free time), spending more time in bad bars with good people, and travel a little bit.
Finally, and you’ll pardon me for gushing personal on tumblr (Though I guess it’s hard not to do on a resolutions post?), but sometime in 2012 I know if the person I’m with now is the person I’m going to be with - indefinitely. It seems to be moving in that direction, and I couldn’t be happier. However, I can be a little self-destructive in relationships. So far, I’ve skirted all of the opportunities to ruin it, but who knows if this year will continue to allow me to do so. I also worry that I’m going all-in way to early - as I often do - and it could be disastrous.
However, it seems like the opposite of that is true, and I have met the love of my life. I genuinely hope you can all be so lucky in this, a most beautiful of new years.
