RESOLUTIONS

So its the start of a new year.As I switched on my computer and logged in ORKUT on the 1st of January,my scrapbook was filled with greetings and a common query.

Hey wats your New Year RESOLUTION?????

I guess everyone by now knows wat a new year resolution means.For those who still have some doubt,let me put two definitions  for them.

1. The WIKIPEDIA definition:

 A New Year's resolution is a commitment that an individual makes to a project or the reforming of a habit, often a lifestyle change that is generally interpreted as advantageous.

2. MY definition:

 It is a set of impossible goals that an individual sets himself at the start of the new year which slowly fades away and is finally abandoned (Generally).

People start the new year thinking of all that happened to them last year.They enjoy the good moments but laments some of the issues which they could have dealt with better.They decide to learn from their mistakes.And thus they make some resolutions.They give themselves ample time(365 days) and hope to get out of some of their miseries.But alas ! By the middle of the year,they realize that it is too tough for them and they are fine with the little glitches in life.

I have always come across hundreds of people who tell me their New Year resolution at the start of the year.But oddly enough, I have never met a single of them at the end of the year telling me that they have fulfilled their resolution(Have you????).Instead they make new ones next year.Funny,isnt it??

A survey tells us that while 52% of participants in a resolution study were confident of success,only 12% achieved them.I would consider myself extremely lucky if I come across one of them.Still we make resolutions and continue to do so.But why???

The answer is simple.We love to chase dreams and illusions and when once in a while someone succeeds, its the ultimate glory.To do the improbable is always challenging.The reason is same as the reason why we never give up finding life on Mars,finding evidence of ghosts or trying to build a time machine . These things lure us and we always chase them,hoping that someday we achieve them.

Lastly I have only one thing to say to all the people who will make resolutions this new year.This is a quote from a 20th century new year resolution postcard:

                                    Resolve to renew all your old resolves,

                                    And add a few that are new.

                                    Resolve to keep them as long as you can,

                                    What more can a poor man do.

Ohhhhh!!!!And if you are wondering what are my new year resolutions,here it goes:

1. Loose weight.

2. Be more active.

Anyone who knows me will surely tell you all that i am abiding by my definition of RESOLUTIONS.