"New Year, New Beginnings."

...made a New Years' Resolution? I have. Have you ever actually followed through with one? I wish there was a percentage somewhere that showed how many resolutions were actually acted upon. OH, how i wish. why? because it's funny to me. the most popular resolution EVERY SINGLE YEAR is probably to get in shape, eat better, or work out more. stay fit, in other words. my question is, if that's your goal, why wait to fail? if people would decide to start their resolutions three days prior to the new year, maybe they'd actually follow through with it. i'm not sure what resolution is funnier, the one i just stated or Carter Willis saying that his new years' resolution is to get Sara Bareilles to write him a love song. i'm not sure what the deal is. I'm such a negative person when i see people talking about how positive their new year is going to be. Maybe it's the skeptic in me trying to breach the surface. i call it realism. what breaks my heart the most is when people who dig themselves into the deepest ditches during 2010 just assume that because the number at the end of the date they'll write on papers changed, so will their habits, lifestyles, or desires. The literal definition of insanity is doing the same thing OVER AND OVER AGAIN and expecting a different outcome. My definition of ignorance is consistently doing something stupid with a decent outcome and expecting it to stay that way. let's take something horrible for example. drinking while driving. that doesn't always turn out for the worst, right? oh, and it could NEVER happen to me. i could never wreck my car and leave this earth. never. A kid my brother went to high school with just passed away for this exact reasoning. Sad, right? let's try something new: "and endless procession of righteous living, living. instead, let there be a flood of justice." - Jon Foreman. I'm an addict, judge me. Sorry for the dissidence. I'm not always this negative but resolutions and some notion of new beginning due to a date change just... sadden me. To God be the glory in all things, can we reflect it? please? i'm done. i dunno. i'm not happy with this post.. but it's still going to be posted. yikes. that's all.