The failed resolve to keep promised New Year resolutions



By Stanley Collymore

Another year unwaveringly beckons with yet more

hopes entertained and pledges given, as were

similarly promised in previous years, of

a brand new start in the offing,

rekindling in the process the ritual act of deluding

yourself that there’ll be seismic and rather

meaningful changes undertaken in

attitude and personal standards of behaviour where

you’re concerned; and not least so because the

necessary avoidance of past and markedly

failed practices conducted by you need

to be finally and suitably addressed,

having themselves been totally

acknowledged on your part

and their basic solutions

accordingly and most

diligently learned.

Yet knowing full well, as you embark on this most

personal and seemingly serious endeavour, that

ultimately the eventual outcome of your

decision will unvaryingly as well as

noticeably be the same as that of earlier years:

moral aspirations and their practical applications

expediently dwarfed and decidedly derailed

by selfish ambitions that as before you’ll

artfully but defensively use to wily defer and

place any semblance of a genuine transition,

relative to the requirements of your real

priorities, firmly on the backburner

of convenient choice and delay;

just as with consummate

predictability, insincerity and

a casual shrug of your shoulder

signifying well what does

it really matter as who

truly cares, you

habitually do

each and

every

year!

© Stanley V. Collymore

15 December 2013.

Remarks:

Like confetti liberally, instinctively and even thoughtlessly at times strewn at the newly weds during an after wedding ceremony most New Year resolutions that are consciously made can be said to fit easily into the same category; an evaluation noticeably reinforced when, like the aforementioned confetti with their function of sportive adornment having been ephemerally fulfilled they are then subsequently subjected to laying trampled under feet and on the ground, discarded and quickly forgotten about.

Curiously, how long do your New Year resolutions actually last? Or do you sensibly refrain from making promises even to yourself let alone others that you either know for certain or possibly feel deep inside that you can’t for whatever reasons honestly keep?

Have an eventful 2014 and here’s wishing you everything that you truly deserve.