Let’s Get Lifted

Welcome to a New Year!  Seems a little old, doesn’t it? I mean, we’re already 5 days in.  Yesterday I thought about some of my resolutions, and then I thought about why I set them.  I don’t think I had any last year because I never really keep to them.  I always thought it was because I was ok with who I was, and what I did.  But thinking about it this year, its not so much about wrongs that need to be ‘righted’ but more about improving yourself and your situation.  And lets face it, a lot of people’s situations could stand to be improved this year.

So that said, I’m keeping my ‘resolutions’ to myself this year – keeping them locked away inside to hold as personal triumphs or failures.  I have some ‘ideals’ that I think are more resolutions, but nothing to be ashamed if I don’t do.. like cook a new dish every week, try new beers (and that goes for new THINGS!), and just be happier.  But how do you measure the success of being happier? How do you say “Oh, I missed cooking a new dish last week.. I fail.”  I don’t think you can.  I think you factor everything into it, and just accept that life comes along and you can’t always control it.

Now that I’ve sufficiently rambled, I’m just going to say that 2009 is going to be a year of change, a year of acceptance, and a year of letting go.  Now thats a resolution I can stick to.