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What Kind of Resolve You Got?
A New Year approaches! This means that before the night is through, you’re supposed to determine some change of course – preferably one for the better – that you’ll have every intention of sticking with but will likely abandon by February. A handful of you might be of the fortunate mindset that allows for relatively easy implementation of changes, probably due to some hard-fought wrangling with your ego. These will-warriors may be so in control of themselves that any resolution made tonight would be indistinguishable from the one they made on June 27th.
And then there’s the rest of us…. I suppose I can be grateful that I have so many vices that all sorts of colorful combinations of resolutions can be chosen, and I’ll still have more to take on next year!
I’ve just returned from CVS with a box of nicotine patches. I’ve got four cigarettes left in my last pack ever – four is my lucky number. I plan to enjoy the six-pack I’ve picked up, not-particularly-enjoy my final cancer sticks, and then get to bed early so I can wake up to a New Year!
So, what are my fellow habit-slaves going to escape from in 2020? Do you think you’ll keep your word to yourself past February?
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I really like that one.
Sorry, Ricochet. I think I just found my new favorite website.
I got “Untangle.”
“Savor.” I already knew that one. But I like it anyway!
I reckon you’ll have to savor your year.
I would never have guessed you were a smoker, Samuel. Not sure what that means, but we can have fun exploring it!
And I don’t make resolutions. I make enough demands of myself without adding to my list!
I didn’t know it was legal for puppies that young.
Yeah… Started when I was about 12, and I was a regular smoker by 16. I grew up right before there was the stigma that exist today.
Even though we’ve established how deceiving our assumptions can be, I always took you for one of those “will warriors” I mentioned above.
P.S. I’ve started that post I owe you, but I’m waiting on my Dad to get back to me with some vital family history.
Stay tuned.I’ll tag you when I finish it!Is that will warrior or willful?! ;-)
Oh! Has it managed to get the rest of you to cooperate?
I no speak English good.
I prefer Alexander’s method.
Web, what’s you’re word of the year?
Mine was “restore.”
That’s a good one!
Ditto.
You’re already done.
It’s a Western Civ, thing. You may not know what we’re talking about.
I do. I meant that your done with that untangling nonsense.