If you have your Facebook, read the topics aiming towards New Years on your Wall.
Seems like the majority is
hating ondisagreeing with people who choose to wait for the New Year for more bigger and better changes. Who’s to say that’s wrong? I don’t hear people complaining around spring time…Because if a change is needed to be made, then it should be made then and there. No patience and no dignity to those who need a specific date to start. That is all.
Of course, I mentioned on my wall that change is always constant. There will be changes and decisions to be made every single day of the year. I’m not saying people who decide to do something new for the New Year never change within 365 days. My personal understanding is that people shouldn’t look down so much on people who reflect on the ending year and create a goal for the new year. New Year’s is similar to Thanksgiving. People give a bigger effort to give thanks on Thanksgiving and then people argue how people should be thankful for all year. New Year, like Thanksgiving, is just a reminder day— not so much of a due date or a start date. Again, my personal thoughts.
People make decisions every moment in their lives whether the severity of the decision is big or small. Some people find it easy to change habits on the spot or within days, but not everyone is the same. Some people may need a reminder or a day of symbolism for example, New Years or Thanksgiving, to help push them to make an extra effort. Motivation isn’t something that you can just pull out of your pocket and be like, “Oh hey! I’m going to start eating healthy starting now!” As we all know or for those who have tried, it’s not easy.
It’s like studying for your final exams. You know you want to do extremely well, but you study in little increments or not at all up until crunch time. Then at the last-minute you cram everything you can and end up not doing as well as you hoped for. Why didn’t you just put that 100% effort in the beginning? It’s not easy to find that motivation. Some people can study strong early, others are blessed with glorious retention skills, and others just struggle to find that motivation.
I see the same pattern for how people use the New Year as a day to restart and rehabilitate their bad habits. I think it’s also an issue of starting at the beginning rather than in the middle. You would prefer to take a final exam at the beginning rather than the middle yeah?
However, I think the issue after making these New Year resolutions is being consistent. It’s like making a promise to yourself that you know you can’t keep. People do understand that they are making these promises to themselves for a whole year so they need to stick to it or else they are bringing disappointment to themselves and others who know their resolutions.
In the end people shouldn’t look down on others for changing on New Years because no one is the same in terms of when to change. People get reminded to do things everyday because our own personal retention skills are flawed to different degrees. New Years is just like another one of those reminders.
