New Year's Resolution

[Ariel]

Okay, I didn't see if anyone had already made this, so don't bite my head off if they did.

Kinda self explanatory, me'thinks. What is your New Year's Resolution and do you think you'll stay a man/woman of your word or break under pressure? Tell us. Shall I kick it off?

My New Year's Resolution is to become a better person. I have major attitude issues, I have a short temper, I'm bipolar, I have trust issues, and I'm a bitch to people when I'm in a foul mood. I solemnly swear to work on everything, mainly on my attitude issues. I swear to treat people with kindness and to walk away when they make me angry. I've lost some friends due to these issues, and I will never let it happen again.

Okay, who's next?  O8)

[RedPhoenix]

My New Year's Resolution is to become a better person.

I actually tried this once. It turned out to be too vague for me have any idea if I succeeded or not. So I'm going with something more simple this year.

My New Year's resolution is to not leave my job unless I get offered a better one.

That may seem really easy to some of you, but I'm currently working on my personal best for most time at one job and would really like it if that streak actually extended into something resembling stability in my life. I've let too many things let me make excuses for leaving jobs in the past, I'm not doing it any more, I need to grow up.

[Silverfyre]

I never put much stock in them but I do have one resolution this year; to make more pancakes. Easily kept.

[Ariel]

*nods* Good resolution, Phoenix! And Silver.. make me some or die. Aw, fuck, here I am breaking my promise already.

Please make me some pancakes? O8)

[Caeli]

I don't actually hold by the idea of New Year's resolutions for two reasons. First reason is that change should not have to wait for some arbitrary date for me to decide that it should happen - January is really just another month, 2013 a year +1 over the previous. Rather meaningless, all told, except that billions of people explode gunpowder in the sky to celebrate, and it's quite pretty to watch those displays.

Second, I don't recognize the Gregorian calendar as the true calendar, and thus January 1st has little significance as a date. :)

But the goal I set for myself earlier this year was to be entirely debt free (student loans, credit debt, etc.) by my next birthday. I'm on track to succeed by June, if I better what I've allotted for my monthly payments.

[Lilias]

I stopped making New Year's resolutions when I realised why I kept failing to keep them.

January and February are the worst of winter. It's dark, it's cold, the exhilaration of the holidays has faded and there's nothing to look forward to before spring. Seasonal depression hits its highest points, and the last thing I need is the guilt of promises failed to keep.

I do make resolutions, but pick more auspicious, and personally significant, dates, like my birthday or name day - and for smaller things, there's always the first of the month, the new moon, or the return from term break. ;)

[Izu]

What Caeli and Lilias said.*nods* Especially with the cold and dark and seasonal depression stuff *shudders*

I usually do mine at my birthday - 3rd May - it's spring, it's warm, everything seems fresh and yeah~ :3 After all in my life more important is my new year, not the new calendar year.

But yeah... I usually try to promise myself to remember about the bright side of life, to be happy about the small things, to be stronger, smarter, wiser and to not let negativity always get to me - that bit is actually rather hard to accomplish.

[Sasquatch421]

I never remember to make these things... Oh let's see this year? Oh let's go with I'll try not to summon Gozer the Gozerian every time something doesn't go my way. Idiot never answers anyways... Stupid god....