Why Does Everyone Keep Creating New Year Resolutions?

On the beginning of a new year, it is very common that people create some list of resolutions. That one person may write “i need to be rich” while another person possibly write “i need to get more motivated to study”, and followed by another lists that created by each individual differently.

I used to do that regularly on my younger ages. Every night of December 31, i came up with a long list of new year resolutions. I remember that once i put something like “i need to be good in math” on my list. I wrote that when i was on the 10th grade, during the transition of 2017 to 2018 to be exact. Years later, i still hate math, and i honestly don’t know how i did manage to graduate highschool with my math grades :’) but i did anyway.

Not gonna lie, those lists did lighten up my spirit to start becoming a “new me”. But, well.. it only lasted for the first few weeks of January. I used to believe that i could end up that year by crossing out my resolution lists, that i would bloom to be the person i’ve planned while i create those lists, but i guess my life simply didn’t work that way.

I stopped writing new year resolutions on the next year. I mean, what is the point by ceating some lists of what you should accomplish throughout the year, but a month later, you forgot about those lists and just being “go with the flow”?

Well, i’m not considering myself as a life-lesson master like Albus Dumbledore or Gandalf either, but according to my experiences, i could conclude that life is a process. What you think what’s best for you today might hits different on the next day. There are some experience, whether it was as expected or not, that could influenced you to make different decisions each day, including resolutions. Remember those resolutions that you created on December 31? Some of them may not be suitable for you anymore on June 25 because you’ve already discovered something else more important and worthy to pursue.

So, what i can suggest is, do not write up resolutions just because it’s the start of another year. I’m not saying that writing up resolutions is not important, but when you do it just because for “new year, new me” things, it would just end up as forgotten notes even before at the end of the year.

Basically, the start of a new year is just simply the transition between one month to another. It’s the same like July to August, but this time it’s December to January. There’s no massive change of the weather during that period, those christmas lights are still hanging around the streets, though. The biggest difference is probably just that you need to pick up another calendar.

Take your time to discover what kind of person you really want to become, create those lists whenever you’re ready. The deadline is all up to you, anyway. After all, you don’t need to wait until new year’s eve to start becoming a better person.