'O rise in the morning and drink in the view'

Zaneta Ragel

December 31^st ritual - The Archetypal New Year’s Eve, an evening of little miracles, exploding fireworks, roaring countdowns and ridiculous resolutions. 

Beneath the whole merry making lies a little human hope, a hope for better beginnings. Mankind by its very nature has always relied upon this  

‘Unpredictable-hope’ to be in favor of them. 

Unless one works towards achieving a dream, one cannot even imagine hoping for it.

Magic?

Of course not my dear. 

Amidst the popping champagne and New Year hugs, emerges a burning motivation to dream of second chances right in the new born year.

Thus once again, New Year resolutions are made. The question is, how many of us can actually follow through with our new year’s resolutions?

The ‘traditionally formed resolutions’ are merely a bunch of ambitious goals that one comes up with on the new year’s eve and are a result of the missteps made by one in the past year. 

Resolutions are framed up to one of the classical lists of to-do and not to-do. 
The whole list of New Year’s resolutions is heaped up in one’s mind as a burden. 

Instead of reading that unread book on your bookshelf or hitting the gym you are puzzled as to how you are going to work out all your resolutions. 

This is far better expressed by the “almighty meme lords” lurking in social media who’d provide us with an endless supply of quotes on how bad we were in sticking to our past year’s resolutions. 

Traditional resolutions are too rigid, unrealistic and have too much emphasis on the end results rather than the means to those ends. 

And that’s all for the ‘resolutions’ made in that merry eve. 
That’s where the resolutions get an adjective- the ridiculousness.

Having said that, we can’t stress too much on the fact that “traditional resolutions” at all times end up in the dumpster, but let’s face it, “traditional resolutions” are not for everybody. 

Being realistic, making resolutions will not alone get you to where you want to go. 
In essence building up resolutions is just a kick starter.   

Some people stumble upon and fall short of their resolutions as they don’t have the patience to take it “one at a time”. 

Its horse racing to win the highest merit at once.

The greedy eyes are always locked onto the ends and not on the means to those ends. 
“I don’t do them anymore. For goodness sake, I’m going to be 63! By this time you gotta get it by now!” says Oprah Winfrey on New Year’s resolutions. “The truth is I actually learned the great joy of being in the present moment”, she says.

‘O rise in the morning and drink in the view’.

The world is unpredictable in its nature. 

Sometimes the plans we make for tomorrow may not be applicable for the day. 

Hence there is no fixed plan at any point. 

It all sums up to one taking up his stand to go on adventures in every beautiful morning. 
It is then one finds his self-worth every day and thus the growth spreads and develops throughout the year.

Therefore resolutions do not have to wait till the next New Year to be implemented. 
It’s a worthy chance to take that one leap in an unpredictable tomorrow rather than clinging up to a plan you made up in the past which is rather doubtful of profiting you to explore your own horizon in the present. 

‘O rise in the morning and drink in the view- to gaze on the sunbeams en kindling in the sky’. 

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time, seize the chance and maneuver it.

Grow and nourish yourself throughout the year hence to cheer the end of the year with true merriness negating regrets and fake smiles.

There are 365 opportunities opened every year then why wait till the 31^st of every December?

Now, is it going to be a new book, a chapter, a verse or the same old book with all the worn out pages?