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The first is simple because it’s easy to PREPARE. Is there a need for anybody to learn how to do this step by step?
Anyone with creativity and imagination, which all of us are gifted with though in differing degrees (better use it or puff!), will surely have a way of making a wild and boisterous revelry or a quiet one to meet the new year properly — or otherwise not.
It’s a make or break for some though. You’ve read what happened to those whose fingers get puffed when the firecracker they’re lighting suddenly went off on their fingers.
The second is equally the same, but siding on the contrary — it’s simple to BREAK. Resolutions are a buzz at the end of every year. Usually people comment on having slipped from their commitment to put their resolutions on stone and into action. Well, what do you know, it just stopped to being a stone. No action.
I wouldn’t say all, but almost any one has had a testament to give that his or her previous new year’s resolution/s had succumbed to being “a promise meant to be broken.”
I’m not saying that no one has ever fulfilled it or any of it if there’s a thousand or more on their list. What I meant is almost everyone of us has a share of missing the action part of whatever resolution we have in mind. We’re guilty in some way of committing the omission. I do have my own too that I’m guilty of.
At the onset, things are working well as planned (or these may not have been done even right from the start). Then later, a lapse here and a lapse there. In the end, resolutions that were “promised” at the start are found nowhere at the end of the year.
Where have all the resolutions gone? All the while we seem to be under the spell of Mr. Oblivion — forget this, forget this more, forget this, forget this more… zzzzzz.
And (drums rolling!) it’s the start of 2011. Yehey! Let’s not forget the resolutions we’ve promised ourselves then.
Though it is not some contract that we bind ourselves onto, it rests upon us to to decide on it if we’d want to actualize it (this year eyhh! not next year) and face whatever we find ourselves wanting at the end of the year with respect to it.
Hope there are no regrets then. But I’m hoping that going for the DO part would be much simpler than breaking it.
Unfortunately, simple is a lost art, much like manners. The complexity of things allows some to hide ineptitude, such as what we receive from government these days.
In companies, waste can be hidden in layers of unneeded bureaucracy.
In our personal ives, the New year’s Resolution allows a momentary “feel good” in which we elevate altruistic goals, above what we even intend to do.
All we need do is be honest. No matter our material possessions, we are all still buried in the same sized box. Once we’re under we mean as much to the world as used Kleenex, unless we do things with our lives that make a difference in the world around us.