New Year’s Resolutions, why?
That is a serious question there. I mean, why do we make them? When I say “we” I mean the rest of humanity, I don’t make them. So why is it that people go through the motions of making resolutions knowing full well they have zero intention of keeping them? Unless you are that person that keeps them, and if you are, move along overachiever. Do you know why we make resolutions? First let’s look at the when, you may be surprised here. Well, according to a website (I am not in school anymore, so I am not going to cite it…I am living dangerously here), this tradition dates to 153 B.C. Yup, you read that right, this exercise in futility has been around far longer than even Aunt Bethany’s green Jello mold. In case you were wondering, and I know you were, January is named after Janus, not Joplin, but rather Janus, a mythical god of early Rome. He is a god of many things like passages, beginnings, and the change of time. Janus was tw...