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Resolutions are Meant to be Broken


Every Year on the 1st of January, most of us make resolutions and promises to ourselves, thinking that this time it will be, "New Year, New Beginnings and New Year, New Me" but is it always true?

Surely, the starting of a new year does give us a feeling of a fresh start. People make resolutions that they will start studying or start exercising or do something they have never done. But mostly it is something that they want to keep constant throughout the year, or they can keep doing it until the end of the year. Resolutions are mostly made to improve our lives. But it has been proved that more than half the people fail to keep their resolutions and just keep on going in a cycle every year where they make a new resolution and then fail to keep it. 

I think resolutions are like promises to oneself and there shouldn’t be a designated time to make them. The start of the year is a beginning but I don’t think it’s something new, it is just the continuation of life from where we left it. So, why not instead of making a new promise, try keeping the ones that we have already made. 

The resolution can definitely be changed if needed but for it, one need not wait for another year to start. I think it is similar to the situation when we decide that we will study at this o’clock and when we go even 1 minute beyond that, we give up and think we will start later at another o’clock. I don’t think we need to wait for the perfect date, perfect time, or the start of the year to start doing something. 

In the end, I would like to say might it be a new year, a new month, or even a new day, one should keep moving forward with life because it will not start anew. 


-Vedha Bhasin (SYBSc)

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