This year, I resolve to have no resolutions again.
Resolutions make New Year's Day into a day for reinvention, a do-over, or "Ctrl Alt Delete" Day. I'm not scoffing at the idea of striving to improve one's self. I have my share of self-help books. I suppose the idea is to reflect and resolve what is wrong with one's self. Too often, the resolutions I hear and read about are to be "a new me." It's unrealistic and an easy set up for failure.
I don't remember making resolutions as a kid growing up in the Philippines. It's a Filipino trait to be fatalist. (It said so in my nursing textbook describing Filipino culture.) I take whatever the universe gives. When others wished me a "Happy and a Prosperous New Year" in the Philippines, I always felt they were really saying "I hope you get more good things than bad." Sounds passive. That I am not a master of my own fate. Maybe so. What's so bad about that?
A fatalist mentality has made me work with what I've got since I can't trade in this "me" for another. It has made me a proponent of self evolution, not reinvention. To learn and build every day, not just today.
Here's to more good things than bad in 2014!