Happy New Year!

Well, it was bound to happen - the calendar has turned over one more leaf and a new year is upon us. Since it is a well known, though much hated, tradition to make resolutions for the new year, I decided to give it a try too. Maybe this blog will help keep me on track!

People tend to have such anxiety about these resolutions, and keeping them, that it's really surprising to me that year after year we still try and set these unattainable goals for ourselves. But, why? Just so we can let ourselves down? I am not wise or reflective when I say this - everyone and their mom has said this before. However, I suppose this is sort of a prelude to my resolutions this year. They are brief, and vague, but hold a deeper meaning for me, so hopefully I will not be so bummed at the end of the year that I didn't read enough, or didn't travel enough or did "____" enough, because I hope that there will be no limits that I set for myself, just something to reach for, and live by.

Dear 2011,

This is what I propose to you, and I hope that you will be generous enough to help me succeed.

This year I will be kinder to myself. I will love and accept who I am, if only for a moment.

I hope that this year I will listen before shouting.

This year, I will play with my friends' children, and love them unconditionally.

I will read more, and I will tell you all about it. You know who you are.

I will take a good photo. An amazing photo, perhaps. One that will rival the others that I hold so dear.

I hope that the timing belt crack will last at least another 30k.

This year I will see some more of the World.

I will continue to follow my dreams and my passions, and I will not sacrifice them for money or comforts.

I will try to break a sweat, at least once every 3 days. Though I'd love to aim for every day.

I will do my best to care and help. I will not let myself be lazy, at least most of the time.

I will follow my intuition, not my calculations, at least once a week.

Perhaps, I will finally do something daring.


I will climb another mountain.

I will stop (or start?) looking before leaping.

Maybe this means that I will succeed. Maybe, I will have to reflect on my stupid idealism with a weathered and skeptical eye next year. Or, maybe it doesn't even matter, and I will just laugh.

I don't know.

Check in with me in 2012.