adminDURING moments of festive season intoxication, New Year’s resolutions will be flying around like confetti, all sounding eloquent and easy to achieve, and with much shoulder slapping, guys pledging to support each other through thick and thin to see that the resolutions are executed. Then come morning, and with a splitting headache from ibhabhalazi, the resolutions are quickly dismissed as impossible flights of the imagination — in short, fiction.
Some of us even go as far as laughing at ourselves and thinking that intoxication can really make a person dream.
But can that stop us from making new ones again when another New Year’s Day looms on the horizon?
I would say a big no, as making New Year’s resolutions, although it should really be a serious matter, has some elements of fun in it.
The funniest part is that for some of us it is like making a wish at a shooting star — you just make it and then leave everything in the hands of the gods.
The most commonest New Year’s resolution, and I think this has billions of followers around the world just like WhatsApp, is the one made at the bar, where some guys would say or wish that in the coming year they want to reduce alcohol intake, and thereby save money for other more important family things.
This is quite a noble New Year’s resolution isn’t it? I think it is also responsible for a reduced number of imbibers in bars from the second of January — until the next payday and hey presto, the bar is full again and everybody is laughing and the New Year’s resolution is relegated into a far distant archive of history.
But of course, not to downplay the New Year’s resolution, there are really some intelligent people out there who make them, and go on to diligently and successfully execute them.
Just like the one when one wishes that in the coming New Year, they want to dump friends who drive them to make bad decisions, and then they actually do that and make new friends, and later discover that these new friends are even worse than those that they would have dumped.
And life becomes a cycle, and it will be back to another same New Year’s resolution again in the coming year, no to bad friends.
But wait a minute. Is it really wise to make New Year’s resolutions every end of year?
The reason I am asking is — are you making a resolution on planning your life only at the end of December, and is that a wise thing to do?
And for those who are constantly making new resolutions during the course of the year, why are you not celebrating them as the ones you make on New Year’s Eve, like have resolutions parties with fire crackers every monthend if you make them every monthend too, or every week if you are the every week guy.
I know some are now shocked, and saying if even that was so, surely a person cannot celebrate every monthend.
But just take a deep breath and visit the nearest beer garden — some guys there celebrate every day, imbibing and making funnies all in the name of socialising.
And do you know what — for these guys, the festive season is just another normal day in their lives, nothing surprising about it, but only that some new people have joined them in their yearlong festival in the name of the festive season.
Now this is a tough question, and I don’t know if anyone can provide an answer. Does anyone remember at what age people start making New Year’s resolutions?
I have tried to think hard, but I can’t just remember too at what age I made my first New Year’s resolution.
I think it must have been when I started working, and realised the value of trying to create some kind of system that would assist me in not carelessly wasting money, just as a good resolution can do, that is if you have the steel to manage to follow it through come rain or sunshine.
What is my resolution for 2015? But first, what is yours? Amid the festive season partying, did you manage to get time to think of any?
And as the saying goes, tit-for-tat, I will tell you my resolution when you tell me yours.
As my grandmother would say, happy new “weli,’ may the good Lord guide you through all your dreams.
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