Vae -- New Year's Resolutions

[sythyry]

The translator tells me that it is just past First Day this year in your world, and that each First Day is the day to make resolutions, and today is the day to break them.  And what resolution that you made on First Day will you break first?  And how do you prefer to break them -- use you hammers, or with a celebration as of the throwing off of shackles, or with a furtive and a sneaky air, or some other way?

Comments

[striderhlc.livejournal.com]

I broke mine with an irritated glance at the omelette line, a look at my watch, another look at the omelette line, and then a few steps to the rack of pastries.

- HC

[bloofox.livejournal.com]

Weirdly enough I haven't broken mine yet. I've managed to go three
entire days eating only healthy things with los of vegetables and
whole grains and not, say, Taco Bell. (Not that I plan to /never/ eat
Taco Bell again, I just plan to eat healthy things the vast majority
of time.) If I break this resolution, then I shall do it in a furtive
and sneaky air as befits a fox...maybe have some nice overly procesed
greasy vole in a burrito.

[kibbe.livejournal.com]

Not everyone makes such resalutions. I find it silly myself. After all, its not like people will actualy keep thoes resalutions. Thay do it more because thay feel thay are expected to make them, than because there is any real heart behind them.
Thus many years ago I desided the best thing to do was the laugh at the whole thing.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I resolved not to make any resolutions, then realized the resolution was inherently self-breaking.

[mmsword.livejournal.com]

I have cheated this year by making a resolution which can not be broken until the next year. Giving one self a goal instead of a restriction can be helpful in these matters.

[kris-schnee.livejournal.com]

Well, I did see my friends gleefully take out a sledgehammer and smash a clock that evening, not waiting till midnight lest they submit to the clock's tyranny even in destroying it.

[archadia.livejournal.com]

I did not make myself any promises to break, because I realized I try my best every year.

[zeeth_kyrah]

I no longer make resolutions, but instead seek knowledge of the time ahead. I have gods I can believe want to better my life, rather than gods trying to make a good story of me (though it's an interesting story anyway), so I tend to trust what I'm told.

Were I to break a resolution I had made, it would be casually, and rarely deliberate; I would simply realize that oh, I cannot do this anymore, and so abandon it, or realize that I had forgotten and thus already broke it.