New Year resolutions?

Now? Why, why, why? I know some of you have made them and some of you have might have even broken them, already! No, no I am not a pessimist – if anything I am an optimist, an eternal one at that. If you have broken them, you have found a friend in me and if you are still going strong, you still have a friend cheering for you! Resolutions - making them, talking about them and reading about theme is what is happening in our household, as January is just about getting ready to wind up. My only resolution is not to make any resolution. Hey, but I never said I will not talk about it or hear about it. So, I am reading this article in the news paper, yes the very good old news paper that we hold in the hand spread out glancing all over for that catchy article while sipping hot coffee. There are some things I do not give up like reading a news paper or drinking coffee in a steel glass or sitting down cross legged (smirking at the criss cross apple sauce term that is endearingly used these days) with my dinner plate on the floor. Anyways, coming back to the paper I am reading about gyms, resolutions, what works and what does not. If anyone asked my opinion I would confidently say that I am not sure about resolutions but working out always works. But who wants my opinion?

At the beginning of the year I for one, skipped all the resolution work outs, the resolution runs, the resolution yoga classes that the gym, my running group and my yoga studio threw at me. And that's another thing, the news papers - I read the paper I am done with the subject I am interested in but I read the same on the net, I am tempted with a link that takes me to a related article to a related article and to another. Oh come on, at that rate who has time for working on that one resolution if all one does is sit in front of the computer surfing and surfing more. Hey! right there "To read only that one article that matters" could be my New Year resolution, couldn't it? Anyways, coming back to all those first day of the year resolutions thrown at me, how could I take up any of them when I clearly know that what I start like ‘that’ will only last so long and not more and then add to that I had that late night "Let's welcome the New Year" party with friends. Think of keeping any of those resolutions, I know I will have to say good night pretty early and I do know that I have that whole year to run, to do yoga and to work out, but I only have that night when a good group of friends really come together. So what else can I do than to skip all the resolution related activities.

Going back to that morning with the news paper, just as I put the paper down, my DH walks in, seats himself on the sofa untying his shoe lace and goes with a "I think I have come up with 6 resolutions for this year!" Yes, you heard me right. I look up at the ceiling, imaging the sky, roll my eyes and go in my mind "Really Universe!! Again your sense of humor at play?" but pretend like I am most interested in what my DH is talking about. If you thought I was the only one cuckoo, you have it wrong. How can birds of different feathers flock together tell me? Just the intensity of 'cuckoo-ness' varies. The news paper has validated some of my misgivings about resolutions, at least about exercise and gym memberships and I challenge my DH to roll out the six he has come up with, not the six packs but the resolutions! Thinking hard, he makes up four and gets up with a "The fifth resolution is to find the next two resolutions!" Now you see what I am talking about. That should make seven no?

The resolution saga continues as my dd comes home chirpily with her list of resolutions. It is exactly like what they say - if you want to buy a red car, suddenly all you see is red cars and more red cars on the road. Where were they before you wanted it and now everyone seems to have only a red car. All I did was pick up one news paper article on resolutions and I get to hear about it for the next two days. But I cannot disappoint my DD. What little ones have to share always interests me and I take the sheet to read and with a smile mark off the first 3 or 4 as "expected" resolutions from her. If you are wondering what they are, it included stuff like "eat more vegetables" "eat less candy". I think those were the ones that were given as examples by the teacher and it looks like she has caught on the idea only by the fourth or so resolution when they get personal to her and I am all smiles and very interested now. As I scroll down, I screech to a halt and that smile has turned into a frown on my face as her last but one resolution said "Have more pashens with mom!" The mom in me would have hung on to the wrong spelling of the word 'patience' if that sentence hadn't taken me by surprise. Needless to say the ensuing conversation between this very patient, nah impatient mom and that child was very interesting and animated as i figured out my flaws that are driving her wanting to be more patient with me! These days when she thinks I am doing something that does not fit in with her sense of what is right and should be right and drive her nuts, she winds up with a "Don't make me repeat 'that talk' again to you, missy!" with a naughty smile.

Finally resolutions do seem to make sense to me after all, more so when I look beyond my world of what I want to accomplish and look around with love what my little world wants from me!

New Year resolutions?