“New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” ― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

That hope
is what I like about New Year’s, because even if just for a little while, we
believe in endless possibilities for our future. In an article by Margarita
Tartakovsky, M.S., “Why We Make New Year’s Resolutions,” she explains that we
like the “allure of starting from scratch.” To us, a new year means a clean
slate, even if that isn’t necessarily true. If you really think about it,
nothing has really changed except the last digit of the date. She also says, we
like the idea of bettering ourselves. Clinial Psychologist John Duffy, Ph.D,
says it “gives us time and a goal date to prepare for the change, to fire up
for the shifts we plan to make.”
I think the
best thing that New Years does is rejuvenate us, maybe not for everyone, but
for enough people. We feel like we can leave something behind and just go
forward. There’s this new energy and hope that makes us determined to reach our
goals. Rejuvenation is important because we have this great and horrible
ability to adapt to anything. Whatever was happening last year, whether it was a
new job, relationship, or even staying in the same routine as always, you got
used to it. But with the start of something new again, now you feel ready to
change. You feel rejuvenated.

For the past
two months, I’ve been discouraged and uninspired about my writing. It’s not that
I doubted my writing ability, it was that I didn’t feel very supported. Support
makes a great deal of difference. The reason that I’m writing today is because
I have amazing friends. A few days ago, one of my friends sent me a text with a
paragraph from one of my blogs. It was about why I write. The day after,
another friend left a comment on my last post telling me that I was a good
writer and to keep on doing it. That kind of encouragement is what inspires us
to continue on.

Thank you to those who support me. It means so much.
Fun Fact: “Setting New Year’s resolutions is believed to go
as far back as Babylonian times. It’s said that Julius Caesar started the tradition
of making resolutions on January 1st as a way to honor the Roman mythical god
Janus, whose two faces allowed him to look back into the past year and forward
to the new year. Romans mostly made morality-based resolutions, such as seeking
forgiveness from their enemies.”
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