New Year Resolutions

It's the end of the year and what do we have to show for it? Did you do any of the things that you promised yourself that you would do? Do you even remember what your resolutions were? Did you make any?

Almost all of us make resolutions try to keep them for a couple of days or maybe even a week and then drop them, saying that they are too hard, or pointless. I always laugh at one of my best friends resolutions, because they are always totally impossible things. I think that last year's were run everyday for an hour, and after that do tybo. Also not drink any pop of any kind. I guess she didn't realize that caffeine is addicting and when you are used to drinking at least 2 Dr. Peppers a day, and when you suddenly don't drink them you are prone to major headaches. Running an hour everyday followed a vigorous typo workout isn't exactly realistic. After trying to do her 1 hour run she collapsed after 15 minutes, walked the rest of the way home and took a nap, completely forgetting about the tybo.

Lets point out several big mistakes the my friend made. First, her resolutions were completely impossible! There is no way she could have run for a whole hour, followed my tybo! Not drinking a Dr. Pepper everyday for lunch left her dead for her 6th and 7th period classes. The other thing that was stupid about her resolutions is the exercise part was stupid, since she is way skinny and buff already. She takes several hours of dance classes a day and has a super high metabolism. Drinking no pop would have done her good b/c that is just empty calories, but she could have started with one pop a day or one every two days.

I asked my dad what my resolutions should be and he told me to pick four from the four phases of life, mental, physical, spiritual, and social. Mental meaning something that improves you in school or improving a talent. Physical and spiritual is pretty self explanatory. Social is something that will make you more liked more or nicer. I thought that this was a pretty good idea so I picked four New Year resolutions.

For physical I want to run a 5k under 22 minutes that would be about a 7:15 mile.
For Mental I want to practice the piano for AT LEAST 2 and a half hours every week (30 minutes. a day), and I want to not procrastinate my homework.
For social I want to not complain as much as I do. Everyone hates being around complainers. I also want to not say little mean things even as a joke, or get offended when people say stuff like that to me.
For spiritual I will write more in my journal about stuff that happens to me, so that I will be able to look back on it when I am older and laugh at myself.

These are pretty good resolutions and not insanely hard to actually do. The hardest thing for me will be practicing the piano and being able to run a 22 min 5k b/c this means I have to run during the winter while I have play practice everyday after school.