They make me go crazy. But at the same time I feel, they are meant to be broken. Yes, resolution is one form of self commitment which is meant to be broken….That’s my definition. After all the failed attempts to stick to them, I have arrived at this most definitive conclusion.

Every New Year, I make a checklist, only to find myself crumple the paper later on and dump it into the waste paper basket. The check list isn’t far too unrealistic. It usually contains about 3 to 4 prime areas which I voluntarily decide to work upon, in the coming year. E.g. Maintaining a regular exercise regimen, committing to a consistent outdoor activity, short term vacation planning, undertaking some social work on regular basis, focusing on that one special thing which I have always wanted to learn new……Usually the list encompasses some of these items; but alas! What’s the end result? The check list remains on paper…..The action plan never ever gets converted into action.

My check list sometimes consists of two columns—Dos and Don’ts…. But I invariably end up not doing the Dos and doing the Don’ts! …It’s that horrible. Like last year, I had put a listing in the Don’ts Column— Don’t indulge in unnecessary shopping sprees. For fun, that year, I hadn’t thrown away the Resolutions paper, and had preserved it intact. One day in the month of June, exactly six months down the line, I casually checked the paper, and found myself having already broken almost half of the Don’ts, and almost all of the Do’s.!

What makes me get into the Resolutions syndrome then, I myself keep on wondering every year…? Is it that friends exchange this conversation just before the advent of every new year, and then that gives me a momentary uplifting thought, that Yes, even I should follow suit; or is it that I want to prove how committed I am, and I end up proving just how non committal I actually become, thus fruitlessly making myself promises, I can’t abide by.

The fact hence remains, that resolution making for me has time and again proved to be No-No ability. All this saga revolves around my Problematic Resolution History despite having known a couple of friends who are into making resolutions big time, and sticking to those, like those self promises were a part of the last word.

I know of a friend who has been making resolutions, practically every New Year, and sticking to those, like there’s no tomorrow. It’s really a quality worth appreciating. How can people afford to be so committed in this world driven by falsifications? How can they keep their minds so focused in this ever changing, ever indulging, chameleon seeming world? It’s a very haunting question which keeps pestering me around every New Year’s time.

Is it some magical miracle? This resolution sticking ability, I mean. Whatever it is, one thing’s for sure. For me, it is an unconquerable overpowering task. And quite contrary, for those around me, it is a natural progression, a little reason, just another platform, just another promise, which they fulfill so skillfully; an art, which I have yet to master, and which, looking at my progress so far ( or should I say regress!), I doubt whether I’d ever be able to master!

Happy Resolution…ing!

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