Resolutions and the New Year

Yes! It's another 31st December - the last day of the year. For most people, it's a day to be sober and reflect on all the bitter-sweet memories that made up the soon-to-be former year and suggest ways to improve themselves while for some others, today is the day to write the long awaited list of resolutions for the new year. I woke up this morning to notice that several BBM personal messages, Facebook updates, Twitter feeds, Instagram quotes, etc all made reference to only one subject - New Year Resolutions.
Making resolutions to quit our bad habits, improve our selves, etc would never go out of fashion and is also a noble cause for one to embark on but my grouse with the whole New - Year -Resolution thingy is that people only wait for the new year to make a long list of very unrealistic resolutions that often times end up not being actualized even at the end of the year. The vicious circle continues with the start of a new year.

Resolutions are decisions we ought to make on a daily basis, decisions we ought to make the moment there is  need to break new grounds in our lives which doesn't necessarily have to happen every new year. Holding on to a bad habit or an appalling attitude with the hope of waiting till the start of a new year to drop them doesn't in any way make reasonable sense at all. For me, if people deem it fit to to make New Year Resolutions (which often times aren't achieved) then "New Day Resolutions", "New Week Resolutions", etc wouldn't be out of place because not only do they serve as short term goals which makes them easier to achieve in the long run, they're a lot more realistic than most lofty New Year Resolutions folks make.

P.S: 2015 was indeed an amazing year. I was able to break new grounds in my personal life, my career, and relationships with people. My eyes were opened in ways I wouldn't have ever imagined and in everything, I GREW. I wish us all a Prosperous and Bountiful New Year ahead.