I went to sleep before the countdown, for the first time ever in my life. But before any horrific gasps are made, let me tell you that I’m now convinced this is the way to do it.
- Relish in knowing you’re one of the few to be going to sleep before the countdown, albeit a ritual practiced by people generally over 65.
- Relish, and there’ll be alot of relishing in these bullet points, in knowing you’re one of the first to wake up in your timezone, on the first day of the year. Then with your morning coffee in hand, you get to call up all your friends and wish them Happy New Years, knowing full well how hungover and asleep they are, and how annoying you get to be because you’re feeling 100% while they’re hardly a fraction. It can be fun.
- At 6am in the morning on 1/1, it’s the perfect time to go rob a home or break into a store and steal. 90% of the overworked police force from the night before is fast asleep. The unlucky few are just begrudgingly waking up for their shift. So it’s the safest time of the year to break the law.
- Relish in the fact, however subjective this may be, that you’re starting the year on a positive note for your mind and body. But to maintain this for the next few weeks, I find it helpful to have partied your ass off the night before New years Eve.
- Relish relish relish, because everything is better when you feel that hardly anybody else is experiencing what you’re currently experiencing.
Now go back to sleep, as I guarantee you’ll be napping before 10am comes around. This relishing business can only go on for so long until you start wondering about what you missed out on with your friend’s countdown party. So yes, go back to sleep before these tempting thoughts invade your proud sanctuary, otherwise, you’ll really gravitate to Facebook and feel left out when you read all the fun New Years Eve status updates by your friends.
But now for the title of my post.
I think New Year’s resolutions are absolutely necessary in life. As you get older and busier, the days go by without time to take a step back and think about the big picture that has always mattered to you. What other time during the year is it slow enough for you to think about this? Summers maybe? But summers are meant for you to enjoy and relax, and catch up on some readings. Not to get all gung-ho on yourself. Also, work for most office-desk strapped people is the slowest between Christmas and New Years. So I say again, set or renew some goals this time of year. Or even better, resurface some values you’ve lost. I recommend the latter, as goals are usually more self-serving and beneficial only to yourself (like mine, which is to lose weight, which really means I want to look good, which really means I’m just a vain mother fucker… how sad. )
And if you don’t? Well, then truly what does a New Year really matter? Nothing. It’s just another day that goes by, and you’ll speed through the year again without knowing what you’re really doing, just checking of task after task with little awareness of a big picture you’ve (re)envisioned for yourself.
So that to me, is the beauty and opportunity of a New Year. I hope I remember this for the next ones.
