2010 Resolutions

Twenty three days is not too late to come up with resolutions for the new year.

I have always been wary of resolutions, knowing that they have every risk of never being met, but I have always found them quite irresistable still. And so, every year, I always come up with a list. Sometimes lengthy, sometimes brief, but always seemingly unattainable.

This year, has proven to be no different. After twenty-three days of dragging my feet, here is my list.

1. I am resolved not to buy another pair of earrings for the entire year. Those silly shiny dangly things have been my ruin, and I now have a collection to rival Imelda Marcos's shoe closet.

2. I am resolved to build up my savings anew, which through no fault of its own, has grown steadily leaner the past year.

3. I am resolved to write a children's storybook, as promised to my wide-eyed, simple-minded, all-believing students. It is never a good idea to make promises to children. No matter how silly or impossible, they will believe it to be true and demand that you deliver.

4. I am resolved to learn something new. What it is, I have yet to decide...

5. I am resolved to travel out of my comfort zone...which is not really a very good resolution seeing how unspecific it is, but I commit to it anyway.

It's not much, but a short list does not make it any easier than a long-winded one. In the end, it doesn't really matter how many one comes up with. Resolutions were never meant to be easy. They were meant to produce change, and change never goes over easy.

The question now is whether these resolutions would ever see themselves met. The challenge always lies in deciding if following them is better than leaving them for something else; something more apt for a situation you did not foresee, therefore making your resolutions exponentially more difficult to achieve, if not impossible altogether.