Moving forward anyway
January 6th, 2008 | by jg3 |So, I’ve broken basically all of my resolutions by now, sorta. At least I’m off track on the ones that I haven’t fully broken yet.
That makes me feel crappy. Especially because I had a conversation with a coworker who doesn’t “believe” in resolutions. He said that people basically expect to fail at them, so they set lofty goals and excuse themselves when they don’t achieve them. The argument against doesn’t require much creativity: If you “quit smoking” for four days, isn’t that four days less of your life in which you live a healthier life?
Well, I still believe in them and I’m not going to give up, but I am going to make some revisions and recommitments.
The alcohol thing I’m going to modify to this: two (2) drinks in any 24h period. I’ve decided that baseball deserves to be enjoyed with a beer and sometimes a vodka tonic is just called for. I still intend to make 2008 a year to explore wine specifically, so that will be my drink of choice in most instances and instead of relaxing the restriction while on vacations, I’ll try to take in a wine tasting or two and make that my GOJFC ((get out of jail free card)) for this year.
I didn’t write yesterday at all, but that’s just because I was using my hands for other things all day. Tearing a hole in my kitchen ceiling, fixing a floor, stuffing chips and salsa into my craw, making lists of international destinations. Doing. Stuff.
Part of the reason for that was I knew that the next time I wrote I would have to address the fact that I’d given up on the wine-only resolution somewhat by committee with A (M was too drunk to vote by that time). And although I knew it was basically the right decision, I made it *after* about three glasses of wine and that’s not the time to be making decisions like that. That’s the time to be making jokes or being creative or relaxing to music or something like that.
I also didn’t write on Friday, but I had worked up some fun stuff in advance, so I felt like that was ok. If you think it wasn’t ok, we just disagree, friend.
I had to have some hard conversations with myself and with others, but I did them and I know that the universe is a better place now because of it. At least my slice of it is and in all likelyhood theirs is too.
Ok, I still haven’t eaten fast food, but I haven’t eaten as premeditated-ly, as intentionally, as I would like to so I’m off to the grocery store to prepare to use my menu.
Filed under: about me
One Response to “Moving forward anyway”
By mijoy on Jan 6, 2008 | Reply
You can do it. There’s nothing wrong with modifications. Would you rather break an unattainable goal or reach a goal within your sights?