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Give up your New Year's resolutions
- By Anthony McConnell
- Trail Editor
- As the semester comes to an end, minds turn to many things. First on most lists are final exams, a close second is the holiday season. With the latter comes those dreaded New Year’s resolutions quickly followed by breaking those resolutions.
Whether it is that diet or quitting smoking or spending more time with family, you know you aren’t going to keep them.
Oh, you might for a few weeks, maybe even a month or two but it is inevitable, you will break your resolution. So why not save yourself a lot of time and trouble and just not make any resolutions.
It’s not that you shouldn’t do good things, it is just that you shouldn’t wait to do them. Why do people put off doing all the things they should already be doing until the New Year?
If you want to lose weight, then hit the gym and start eating better. If you want to start spending more time with your friends and family, then make time for your friends and family. If you want to kick back and watch more movies, then take some advice from your sneakers and “just do it.”
The problem is, people don’t really want to improve themselves. People want to look like they are trying to improve themselves – it is the American way to look like you’re making a difference when in reality you are doing little or nothing.
Prime examples of this are America’s charities. People say they want to help, and some do, but most of the time it’s just talk. In reality, if everyone in America just gave $1 to charity that would be over $300 million.
Just think what could be done with that kind of money, and all for less than one cup of coffee. Sure it is a pipe dream to even think of people coming together for a single cause like being good people, but what if.
What if everyone decided to make a difference? What if we all joined together and said, “We are going to stand up and take action against injustice?” What if?
There is this line in the movie Death to Smoochy, “You can’t change the world, but you can make a dent.” This line couldn’t hold more truth if it wanted to.
One person can’t change the world, unless they have nukes, but they can make a difference in just one life.
What if everyone changed one part of their own little world? Imagine how the world would change.
- Trail Editor