Many people do not make those new year resolutions at all, and I admit I like the principle behind it. This is why wait for new year when you can wake up on any day and decide to take up a positive action or give up a negative one ? Birthdays are frequently a time for ambitious plans and gestures, especially those landmark birthdays, I was going to be a wife and mother with my family complete by the time I was twenty eight, having seen my mother struggle as an older mother..it didn't happen. Lent, which is just about to begin is characterized as a time for giving something up;preferably something that it would pain us to go without...like chocolate. In Recent years , the emphasis has moved towards taking up something...something positive.
Sadly, I think that resolutions no matter when they are made, rather like my earlier article about the Christmas spirit, to be achievable need to be realistic and so often they are not. I would love to be able to sponsor a child, a little girl to educate, preferably in the country very dear to my heart..Iraq. However, since I cannot meet my own bills , this remains a future dream. There are places I would love to visit and see,. Yet again this year, I had to miss going to Peterborough, to visit the cathedral and see the commemorations which are held each year at the time of her burial in the then abbey, of one of my heroines Queen Catherine of Aragon...one day I will get there...
Several years running a friend makes the classic big resolution to give up smoking. However, life has not been easy for her and a the first response to stress for so many , is to light a fag.. and she isn't in a good place to give up smoking. Resolutions need to be realistic no matter when they are made, to have any chance of success. Like going on a diet..if it took years to put the weight on it won't all come off in a week.
Since I don't smoke, well, I did once when I was seven and lit up one of my father's cigarettes which he had left on the sitting room coffee table, a very frightening cough and a beating from my mum, left such an impact in my memory that I never smoked again, I can't make resolutions to give it up. In any case, probably because I don't smoke I think that giving it up if I did would be easy..since I don't like the idea of it. I'm sure it would be different my readers are thinking,. If I was a smoker, but is a resolution still a resolution if it is easy and takes little or no effort as I imagine smoking would ?
I'm not sure that resolutions are any more likely to be sure to succeed depending when they were made,,we are constantly a work in progress, so if we are determined and the circumstances, situation are right for it, we can make fresh beginnings at any time, which is great for career goals. Since I broke most of my new years resolutions..too ambitious... I am taking a chance on Lent.
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