The notion of New Year resolutions 

Year after year, we promise our selves and those who matter, as we resolve to change something that will hopefully make a progress and choose the arrival of a new year for the same. This, the much loved notion of New Year resolution romanticizes the concept of a new beginning like none other giving form to the otherwise half -baked idea of a fresh starts !

However, sooner or later, 4 out of 5 of us break, stake, change and finally forget the resolution as it goes on to join the rejected pile of ideas in the back burner of our heavily stocked minds. Having too much to do already and unable to make time for new tasks is though an obvious reason, the fact that we are happy with our clumsy selves so much so that the idea of change is superficial is in many cases true as well.

This reminds me of a friend who did everything from sticking posters all over his room to attending workshops to quit smoking, only to end up getting back to his dear cigarettes  back after a couple of days. He said, we like to tell people about our want to change and let them know of how we are unable to do so, in spite of really wanting to, - as a way of convincing ourselves that the lack of change is simply inevitable and not something we have chosen as a way out, whereas, we actually do not want to change at all !

Do resolutions ring a similar bell, or are too many of us masters in procrastination?