New Year resolutions

It’s finally the year of 2011, the year that includes the start of the last year of my high school career.
This year was the first year that I did not get to watch the famous ball drop in New York. Not that I go to New York to see it, but TV has always been a good substitute. The next day I had to work early that morning, so bed was where I was when the hour finally came and the ball plummeted down.

I find it very humorous that everyone creates New Year resolutions, which they never keep. They last for a matter of weeks, a month if they are lucky; nevertheless, they end up forgotten and given up on. Why make out to do something you know you will not follow through with? It appears that people love to set themselves up for failure, and it is okay when they do fail. What is this teaching to the human race? That giving up and failing is okay. What kind of principle is this, that you teach your children this the beginning of each year, and it be okay? Why do we insist on starting a NEW year with failure? And why is it that we have to wait until the beginning of the year to decide to make a change; why not make a change when it is needed, instead of when you have a fresh year?

In my opinion, New Year resolutions are not positive traditions of the human race.