New Years’ Resolutions, Schmesolutions

The emotional need and practical absurdity of rebooting every year

We’re now well into the first month of 2025, and the gyms that have filled up the past couple weeks are already started their return to pre-resolution levels.

The emotional need and accompanying rationalizations for making these New Years’ resolution are understandable, but the arbitrariness makes most of them moot.

We’re creatures who instinctively love cycling holidays that somehow connect our micro-lives to the macro-universe, either through the stars or our calendars.

I don’t know about you, but I always fail with any such ad hoc resolutions I make, my own internal clock and to do list following no other map than my unconscious.

Yet every year we celebrate the year ahead, and assume, pollyanna creatures that we also are, that the excitement of being able to “start over” will enable us to do so.

Why not? Any excuse will do. Have you made any resolutions? Have you stuck to them so far? Regardless, let’s enjoy the transition to another season, and keep rocking it.