Resolution 101

By Christine Jayakaran

A new year begins and so do the thoughts on resolutions for this new year. Maybe it's the plan of starting a fitness program, or looking for your soul mate or learning to cook or just taking life less seriously and taking a break now and then. Whatever the resolution is we (read as I) tend to keep our resolution for all of 24 hours. It's not funny how short lived these decisions are, so it's no wonder that I end up feeling so disappointed with myself. My resolution for this year came out of a Bible passage which when paraphrased reads like this 'Live joyfully, thankfully and prayerfully'.

Here's the thing, I have started practising this in the last twelve days already and it is soooo not easy but it's also not impossible. I'm resolute that my life will be different this year because of these three qualities that I'm going to consciously include into my everyday. Of course, bear in mind that the minute we make a resolution we have an almost immediate testing of the strength and seriousness of the above mentioned resolution. I kid you not! Friends who have gotten onto healthy diet plans have to attend a big fat Indian wedding their third day into the diet and kaboom!! There goes the eating plan up in flames! You decide to be positive no matter what and you are faced with the worst crisis ever! You decide to chill more and take it easy but work feels more insane than it did last year. It's like a conspiracy of the universe to drown our resolutions out in the waters of real life. In the first ten days of January I have been tested and found a little wanting on all three counts but I'm not one to give up! And neither should you.