From the mind of critic: “If resolutions are meant to guide us through the coming year toward improving our lives and bringing us more joy, how come we forget about them so quickly? Is it because we believe saying the words is enough, then we find it takes work, so we forget about it because works takes effort? Or are we scared about improving ourselves because it entails changing who we are, and we’d rather stay the same, even if it entails going stagnent? Many of us believe the new year provides a fresh start, a clean slate where we can engineer each and everything we want to see happen. Some of us are more ambitious than others, but we all wanna be successful at what we attempt. Where we run into trouble is when we lay out all these elaborate ideas, but fail to come up with a way to actually make them happen, bow out early if we do, and neglect to lay a foundation to even make them possible. Maybe this is a symptom of a much bigger disease. Maybe it’s something that has become so inbedded in our political system, that no matter what end of the spectrum we find ourselves on, we have gotten really good at stating exactly what the problem is, but fail to articulate how we’d fix it. Maybe our political leaders learned it from us, because they are us. Whether it’s a resolution or venting our political opinion, we must have follow through, we must walk the walk, and we must do what we say, or nobody will believe anything that anybody says, and nothing will ever change. We just have to ask ourselves if we actually wanna make positive change, or just say that we do” 🙂