Resolve: To make a firm decision about.

Resolution: The act of resolving to do something. A course of action determined or decided upon.

We do the same thing every year. Thanksgiving we eat until we can’t move then we party. Christmas, we eat until we can’t move then we party. By this time we’re feeling a little guilty for the way we have been treating our bodies, but New Year’s is on the horizon, and we are really going to eat and party this time. All this eating and partying builds up a reservoir of guilt that’s filled to the brim and pushing against the dam that holds it back. What do we do with all this guilt?

Sometimes I wonder why we even have a New Year’s. In actuality, each of us has their own personal New Year’s, why do we need one more to mark the passage of time? I sincerely don’t know. Another question comes to mind and that’s what happens to most of us every New Year’s. It has to do with that reservoir of guilt I was talking about earlier.

You’re at a party or in a conversation on the street. Both of you wish the other Happy New Year then comes the big question that will most likely be answered with a lie, “What’s your New Year’s resolution?” I say lie because though most of us are sincere in our statement of our goal for the New Year, for the most part we just don’t make it very far before we break our resolutions. The average time a resolution lasts is about two weeks. Why put ourselves through resolving to do or not to do something when we all know the end will be a return to the previous behaviors? Why suffer the guilt of not being able to keep our resolutions?

It’s exhausting. It’s futile. The whole thing is nonsense. I don’t want to participate. I’m not playing this game. I hereby resolve not to make a New Year’s resolution.

Crap!