New Year's Resolutions piss me off. If it's important, and you resolve to do it, how often does the realization happen on Dec. 31 or Jan. 1?
these days, I love it.
I am always searching for "shocks" which might shake me out of my routine
you only ask yourself the big questions after a tragedy
It's easy to live in the moment, just responding to day to day concerns. It's important to take a moment to look at your entire life and your greater context and make a decision about it. But you can't do that while you're in the micro.
new years is a hook, it makes you think about the last year - you could use it to zoom out and self-evaluate.
Last year, my new years resolution was to give up Irony on the Internet. Now I don't troll, and I don't flinch about the crappy stuff I actually like.
I don't have a firm resolution yet this year... maybe this will be the year that I figure out the next step of my career.