It is my favourite time of the year. The festive season has football action coming thick and fast.It is also the time of the year when i start googling for best new year resolutions. Our new year resolutions are like politician’s election manifesto. They are ambitious,sounds legitimate and often non-executable. The spirit with which we jump into the new year’s resolution bandwagon starts dwindling the moment right after we make one. It is not about if we can keep our resolution. it’s about how long. Because eventually we all will falter. The longer you can prolong the inevitable, the better (or worse). So why do we keep making these false promises to ourselves?. There is something about the cool December wind or the Christmas spirit which lingers on even after christmas. Come new year we are all resolved to take a resolution. I think it’s the idea of a fresh start that compels us into making a fool of ourselves year after year. There are many who quits drinking and smoking every year. They feel so attached to that resolution that they make it every year. Now people have started taking resolutions to quit things like Facebook and Twitter. It’s good to know that people are realizing that the best way of socialising is out of the social networking sites. But it is not that easy. First they will post about their resolution to quit Social networking site on one such site. Then what about all the subsequent likes and comments and retweets and whatever jargon they have invented for ruining our time?. It is inherent human nature to give in to temptations. We feel a resurgent urge to do the taboo. When someone tells you not to touch something, we feel irresistible to do so. Here we are giving the forbidden fruit to ourselves. We tell ourselves to not do something and how seriously naive it is from our part. Isn’t this the same thing that happened with Adam. If God had told him to go ahead and eat the apple,he wouldn’t have taken another glimpse at it. But God forbid him and look what happened. Some might argue that the new year resolutions are always negative like i wouldn’t do this, I would quit that. We have an inherent penchant for positivity. It is this lacuna of human psychology that leads to the failure of most of our resolutions. So may be resolutions like “I will keep on drinking”, “I will pay taxes” will do the trick. The main reason for the failure of New Year resolutions is that we are not ready for it. It is forced on to us by ourselves. That is why we struggle,linger and finally succumb. It doesn’t require a New Year to make a fresh start. You can do it whenever you want. But you need to be convinced that you are fully ready for it. We are not resolute enough to keep our resolutions. So my resolution for this New Year is to not make any resolutions. But I being a feeble human being will make one and undoubtedly break that even before the first weekend of January 2014. Right now it’s time to get creative on the resolutions and i am switching to google.
GandhiSpeak 