Last weeks conversation, as every year before that on the first week of January was “The New Years Resolution” and how the same old new resolutions will be held seriously this year. So I made a couple of them (resolutions) and one of them is to keep in touch with family and friends more often. To prove my point to myself, I called a dear friend of my school years and reconnected with her after a very very long time. And as we went through catching up with our lives, we rekindled and revisited our past and it felt really good to picture myself as a 4teen, doing all the stupid things possibl. Of course what we did is nothing compared to what 4teens do now a days!!
And as we walked through the lane of childhood, we talked like children and our hopes and dreams still unachieved. What if Santa Claus would make me 4teen pounds lighter instead of bringing me my favorite perfume? What if he handed me my CPA certificate instead of a SPA gift certificate? What if Santa Clause came in January to deliver the long list of the resolutions that we make for ourselves, instead of all the materialistic ones that we want for Christmas? After all, I can buy all those perfumes, clothes and games, I have problem losing 4teen pounds in that last 4t years!! Sounds childish?
I know that for everything in life there is a price to pay, some of which we pay with paper money and the rest we pay by time, effort and believe it or not, our lives. I made an effort to call a long lost friend as part of some cliché in our daily lives, my new year’s resolution. I paid with my time and effort and what I gained, was maybe nothing to you, but priceless to me. I have not felt like this for more than decades. Something hidden and dormant within me has resurfaced and I love the feeling. So maybe Santa Clause, and or what ever we want to call it, did bring me something more than the perfume, but I had to show some initiation to activate and push Santa!!
The way I see it, no one really decides to start smoking as a resolution or getting involved in real life dramas. No one ever wants to gain weight or fail in anything, but it happens. Why? Because we do not want the alternative bad enough and we do not want to pay for it with all the other things but paper money. Sometimes we have to give a bit of ourselves to get a lot more of other things and sometimes that giving is not just paper money. And believe me, paying with money is always an easy way out, even if you don’t have it. Not everything worth, is paid by money. Ask me, I know!
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"Ive been thinking alot lately about taking chances. and how its really just about overcoming your fears. because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it end up, you're glad you took it." ~scrubs.
more so than peole not wanting to pay for the alternative with money, i think its fear. maybe thats why we set our resolutions so broad & cliche because that way if we fail, its not that big of a loss; it was never feasable in the first place.
i agree with beck. i think that people set the bar for themselves too high or too broad because that way if we fail were not too dissappointed.
"lose weight" or "keep in touch with old friends" if they are so obscure its easier to keep them. Its not money we fear, it's failure.
beck & john,
so you are not one of those who think that from failure one learns something. You rather fail than learn something from a failure??
How old are u?
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