Getting prepared
My little sister starts high school (already! almost a teenager!) today. She is, I think, excited, and also scared, and so hiding all of it under a veneer of “you know I don’t care about school”. I guess we will see. This is about as much of back-to-schoolness there is — my new year will start in part with the new job, in part in a month, when it will in fact be a new year.
I am trying to think now about things like resolutions. What would I like to do, over this next year? And there are the obvious things, of course, which won’t happen, I will never suddenly be neat or organised, and I can’t resolve to buy a place any more than I already have. So I am stuck. Take a photo a day? Spend 3 hours a week on art? These sound good. But — but.
I have until October 3. What should my resolutions be for this year?
August 30th, 2005 at 5:28 pm
Photo-a-day and/or spending 3 hours a week on art both sound good. I find that manageable-size resolutions like these I actually keep, the life-changing ones I almost never do. And small changes eventually, slowly, do end up changing one’s whole life.
August 30th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
You could be more organized this year than last. Keep that up for a few years and you’ll hardly recognize yourself. :>
August 31st, 2005 at 12:17 am
Mine tend to all be “become a better person” type of resolutions. Your ideas sound good, but your concluding “but” leads me to think you want something bigger, more long term and ambitious. Like learning a language, learning how to make your own wine, or reading the entire James Joyce canon. (And no, I don’t like any of these suggestions particularly much, but… well “but”) Hmmm, no help here for you, it seems.
August 31st, 2005 at 12:50 am
Well, I could hardly be *less* organised.
I know I could keep the ones I suggested, and that I would like to do them. I just feel something keeping me from so doing. And I am not sure what. I don’t want anything much more, or at least, not something I can think of offhand for a resolution. Guess I will see. I just don’t want to do *nothing*.