Resolutions

So I guess this is the time of the year when the blogosphere goes wild with predictions and resolutions for the year which has already started flowing past us into the eternity of the past. Do I join the masses of the geek minority and share my goals and aspirations? Should I succumb to the urge to loudly blabber about what I intend to accomplish, all the while with the notion floating in the back of my head that life never goes as planned, and this year will be no different. Sorry for the sudden skeptical critique here, but I’ve got to ask, does anyone have any statistics as to how many people keep those resolutions? How many people actually keep going to the gym once it’s February? Does anyone really quit smoking on New Years? Yah, I guess some people are successful. They actually make a lasting change. So I’ll admit that New Years resolutions do have some merit. I think the problem I have with them is basically that I’m more of a goal type of person. You can set goals when ever, you can complete goals when ever, you can give up on goals whenever. There just seems to be something about a resolution that has an air of permanency to it; as if you’ve really done a terrible thing if you fail it. Goals just don’t have that imperativeness attached to them. Don’t get me wrong, they’re important, you can’t take them lightly either (at least if you really intend to complete them). But you have to admit there is a slight difference in our notions of a New Years resolution and a goal you set for yourself… or am I completely crackers on this? Maybe I should think over these posts before I start my rant. They would definitely turn out more intelligible and possibly coherent posts.
Come to think of it, I don’t think that I have ever personally made any New Years resolutions. I’ve never really been the type. I guess if someone asked me I’d make up some bogus answer about “reading more” or “doing such-and-such that I’ve always wanted to do”. Maybe this year is the time to actually throw one of these notorious resolutions down on the table and see what comes of it. Trouble is, if I do make a call like this, I’m not the type of person to brush it off or not complete it. Consequently I have to be really careful that I make a resolution which I can actually keep. I guess that’s where the tricky part comes in. You have to make a resolution which is simple and direct enough so that you are sure you wont give up, forget, etc but at the same time you have to resolve to push yourself a little. Step out of your comfort zone as they like to say. So, rather then jump in with a claim that I will save the rain forests, I think the only course of action is to spend some time thinking about this a little bit. To that end I guess I’ll get back to you with the resolution(s) when I come up with them. I’ll try not to make them to easy, challenges are good, just don’t expect me to be revamping my whole life… although that would be kind of fun and quote the challenge at that… and it would make for some interesting blog posts as well. We’ll have to see. Ok here we go, resolution number one: I resolve to sleep on this resolution and get back to actually making one later. Yah, pretty lame, I know. But what can you do? These resolutions just never seem to be what we want. Too easy to be a real resolution, too hard to be a reasonable resolution.

A New Years Eve Disclaimer

So, it’s new years eve and I’m sitting at home lonely and sinking in the quicksand of self-pity… but no one wants to hear about that. Complaints aren’t what blogs are meant for. Although … in this blog, though I may try my very best to avoid it, some of these thoughts will inevitably slip through the cracks. Yes, I bashfully confess. You, oh fearless reader, are going to end up reading some complaints.. some major complaints… some boring, depressing, “my life sucks” kind of rants. It has already been fated by the gods themselves. I will eventually end up lamenting some horrible situation found within my life. A life which is, in reality, actually far better then the majority of the world’s population. So, I therefore make this disclaimer before I continue any further:

Assuming I keep this blog up (which is unlikely), and assuming you the reader choose to keep reading it (which is even more unlikely), you will end up coming across sentences, paragraphs, and whole posts of bullshit. Not the lying asshole kind of bullshit, and not the intellectual kind of bullshit if there is such a thing, but the kind of bullshit that no one should have to put up with. This would be the self-pity/depression form of bullshit… by far the worst type of bullshit to endure. Because life is far to short to waste your time reading such drivel, meaning it can’t do you any good at all, I suggest that when this act of literary groveling inevitability occurs, you the reader must take action. The simplest solution to such a dilemma is of course to lightly avert your eyes (and maybe harass me in the comments). Perhaps you will do this only for a few words, perhaps a few lines… probably the rest of that post. But I have faith in you, my intelligent reader. I have faith that thought such avoidance in both necessary and desirable. I have faith that you recognize these facts, and armed with such knowledge you will still be able to recognize the alluring nature of this blog, and therefore you will return to see what comes next in the life of moi.

Now that I’ve got the disclaimer (and any attempt at writing something with any sense of literary intelligence) out of the way, I can regress into the lower case I’s and improper sentences that the wonderful world wide web is so fond of.

New year, new blog, I guess that’s how it goes.

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