GUEST WRITER: JUANITA RITTER – Resolve, Resolute, Resolution 2008
Posted by Tisha Tolar on January 14, 2008
My friend Tisha asked me over a week ago to write a story about my Resolutions for bringing in this New Year of 2008 and everyday after work since then, I told myself that I was going to work on that for her… and everyday I couldn’t bring myself to come up with anything to write. As I come in from smoking a cigarette (yes, one of my resolutions that I have broken already), I am thinking about how I still can’t come up with anything. Is because I didn’t have any real resolutions that I set for myself this year? Oh, I started off with the typical thoughts on resolutions. Every year it’s “I’m going to exercise more”, “eat better”, “quit smoking”, “become a millionaire”. You know, the usual. Being that it is only the 14th day of 2008 and I have not done any of these things, I asked myself why every year I find myself in this predicament. Then it dawned on me! I actually looked up the definitions of resolution, resolve and resolute. The one thing that stuck out at me was all three of the definitions include the word determined.
So I asked myself, “What am I determined about?” I am determined to raise my children to be decent and productive human beings. I am determined to not follow in the footsteps of my family’s path of drug abuse and alcoholism. I am determined to be a good wife and a just a good person in general. Then it occurred to me that I must live out my “resolutions”, the things I am “resolute” to do, the goals that I have “resolved” to attain everyday throughout every year. This thought lifted the weight of my yearly failure and I actually feel better about myself. I still want to work on exercising more, quitting smoking, and eating better. I will “resolve” those issues also. But those big resolutions in my life that I work on without a second thought everyday thoughout the year are a great accomplishment.
The reason why it never crossed my mind to include the things that I am determined to achieve in my resolutions at the beginning of each year is because it has never been an option for me to stop doing them at any time. Does that make sense? . . . . . What’s that? A bunch of bologna? Whatever could you mean? I hear your sighs and I see the eyes rollin’ up in your heads and you’re right. Okay, okay…here we go. I resolve that was my last cigarette, I’m getting on the floor now to do my crunches and I will be eating salads all week to make up for that cheeseburger and fries I had for lunch. Better? Anywho, good luck to everyone that has “resolved” and are “resolute” to fulfill their 2008 New Year’s Resolutions!
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