The Season of Making Resolutions

I never have a new year resolution.  My friends usually have a list, which at the end of the year, probably only 12 ticked out of 100.  Here are the most popular ones that pops into my buy brain (which is not too busy due to the holiday atmosphere), with my contra in italic:

• Quit smoking (should I really?  I will someday, perhaps…)
• Lose weight (do I need to?)
• Be a better person, be more compassionate, all around that line-lah (that’s everyday prayer)
• Save money (been doing it all the time)
• Learn to do something new (don’t we do it everyday?)
• Go to this place and that place (I do this spontaneously)
• Get a new/better job (n/a)
• Find a boyfriend/girlfriend (n/a)
• Get pregnant (oh boy, I hope not!!!)
• etc

I don’t make resolution and have never made one.  Well, maybe the last time I did was when I was in my twenties.  Something along reach a better rank or finish my school.  But even that, it was not a new year’s resolution. 

Not that I disagree on people making a list of it.  As a matter of fact, I feel happy that they have plans.  It’s just me.  I just don’t have any, never felt the need to make any.  I have no intention to quit smoking.  I am not obese so no reason to lose weight.  I save money anyways and I do things spontaneously.  Besides, don’t you think having a target like that makes your life stressful?  And isn’t that only during the first quarter of the year that you remember those resolutions?  Look at the gym, it’s always full in January with new faces, but then in March, it’s just the regulars again. And at the end of the day, you can’t find your resolution checklist anyways.

Maybe my friend Dave and Kerm are right.  That I am a Capricorn (this horoscope thing just came up because of my recent birthday and I don’t believe in star signs) so I’m easy to please. 

I don’t have any new year resolution because I know I will not fulfill it.  I’d rather have short plans that I know I can achieve.  I live a spontaneous life.  I like to respond on whatever comes to life.  Like in early December, I plan to tone my muscles up again (it’s my 3rd week training like crazy and my muscles are showing back again).  Or in March, I thought about going diving to Sabang and I did it in August. 

I always feel that I’ve already had enough that I don’t have to make a list of resolution.  I am at a point where I feel so blessed that all my prayers are answered.  I have a person that takes care of me (Al is more than just a maid for me, she is like my sister).  I have Samba and Atun that I can love and stroke, who loves me unconditionally.  I have Koh Pri and Kiat, where I go to when I need a hug, a spank to be strong, who are my protectors, my big brother.  As James Blunt said in the beginning of his hit song “You’re beautiful”:    ”…My Life is Perfect….

Yes, my life is perfect.  No matter what others say.  Therefore, I don’t have a resolution.  I don’t think I will ever have a new year’s resolution.  Everyday I have a resolution:  to be a person who can be grateful for what God has given me.  And be more and more grateful that I have a perfect life. 

If anything, I would like this blog to be better and better, and have a meaning to others.  And even this is not a new year’s resolution.

For that, I don’t have to wait for next year.  I’m doing it right now. 

Happy New Year, everybody.  May our lives be filled with joy, great wealth, great health and great sex in the coming year!

Parvita

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