So, got any resolutions? I have a few perhaps, but most I’ll keep on the downlow. I’m kind of freaked out just looking around at how the mass retailers of the world push a “new year new you” in every advertisement as if you can buy your way to happiness and peace. Buy an elliptical machine, buy workout clothes, buy organic wheatgrass juice squeezed for you by monks at dawn…if you buy the right stuff, everything will be superduper in 2009! Right?
Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…I’m all for finding your motivation, and maybe the turning of a calendar page is motivation for some folks, but for most of us (myself included), all those resolutions to magically reinvent ourselves last about 10 days and then pfffffffffffffffffffffft who cares? And you find yourself hanging clothes on your treadmill instead of walking on it, you blend Ben and Jerry’s ice cream in with your Slim Fast chocolate shake mix.
So if I can sprinkle any wisdom on you this New Year’s from my house to yours, resolve to work on the inside stuff not this superficial hooha that every SuperMegaMondoMart wants you to buy in three easy payments…be a little kinder, especially to yourself, this year. Won’t cost ya anything out of pocket to go to bed five minutes earlier when you’re tired, to turn the ringer off on your phone Saturday mornings to eat waffles in your PJs with the kids undisturbed, to sing ridiculous songs in the shower.
Happy New Year, happy every day of the year.