Quick. Without thinking, answer this question: What is something that you make and then break without even a second thought.
Well, if you answered ‘A New Year’s Resolution,’ then you got it right.
How many times have you made one of these ridiculous commitments, only to end up apologizing to yourself, days or maybe even only hours later?
I admit. I’ve made them, too. And throughout my years, which have been many, I’ve come to the conclusion that the New Year’s Resolution falls into one of four categories: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air.
Let me define these for you.
The Fire Resolution: This is one that is burning inside you. One that you know you’ve just got to make and have to keep. The one that defines who you are. Or so you think. Such as writing a chapter everyday. Knitting five more inches of your shawl every evening. Painting a scene each morning. The desire to accomplish ‘X’ amount everyday so that at the end of the year, you will have that finished manuscript, the perfect shawl, a new painting. But, ah, like any fire burning out of control, you can only keep up this ferocity for so long and it begins to die. ‘Every day’ becomes ‘every other day’ which melds into ‘once a week’ and then, well, just whenever you feel like it. So goes that resolution.
It’s not to say that the book/shawl/painting doesn’t get finished. If something is important to you, you’ll do it. You’ll make the time for it. And you won’t need to set a beginning date.
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But several days into the new year, you start having withdrawals and begin to wonder why you imposed such an ‘all or nothing situation’ on yourself. You can eat a little sugar. Why not? And that HBO special about Real Sex is educational. And really, exercising everyday just leads to aches and pains that you can live without.
Stopping any activity cold turkey is just a bunch of hogwash.
The Earth Resolution: This has been revolving through your mind, on and off for years. Like the tide, it ebbs and flows and it’s something you’ve always wanted to do but never found the time. Like learning to foxtrot. Or to take cooking lessons. Or read every book written by Charles Dickens. You just need a date to start it.
But once you do start, the revolutions don’t end. And then one day you ask yourself why are you even doing this?
The Air Resolution, also known as the Peer Pressure Resolution: This is one you make because, well, everyone else is making one and you’re falling under the group mentality. So, you just pluck one from out of thin air.
You’ll let people in front of you in line if they only have one purchase and you have a full cart. You’ll remember to recycle. You’ll answer every e-mail in a timely manner.
This may be the easiest to keep, because after all, you haven’t been obsessing over it. And there is no life-changing consequence involved with the resolution.
But in the end it doesn’t matter which category your New Year’s Resolution falls into. Because one thing is certain – wherever it falls, it’s going to get broken.
