Show a Here We Go Again by Patty Murphy Here it is a brand new year and your reading the same old column Oh why are we such creatures of habit Now is the time to break tradition be daring start something new What could I be for this new year I could stop being a writer copy editor and an student and be be lets see something glorious an astronaut Of I could change directions and be a revolutionary r model in her thirties I Ican Ican Ican can start anything I want to do with this New Year and make l life e into whatever I want I am am in control of this vast expanse of time known as the year Every moment is under my control If H I want to move to Spain I just have to sell my house and go Maybe I could make my dream trip of going to Australia come true save a little money from my astronaut salary and go pet the Koala bears Its It's exciting the things that you can make as your new years year's resolution I cant can't stand people who make the same boring resolutions year after year You would never catch me making a cliche old new years year's resolution L Life e is to live I expect that I will come up with something dramatic and nearly impossible to do Something that will give my l life e meaning and that will put me on a pedestal of all that know me Maybe something as hard as getting an A Ain in n Stats II New Years is that time of year when all the things you hate about your l life e and situation come under scrutiny Its It's the time when people actually make goals to do something about it However there are many who go out in rebellion to this most motivational of all holidays by making resolutions they break the next day They are then free to flurry where the winds of life blow them unprepared with a direction of their own I would personally be devastated if I was limited to only one time a year to change my mind or lifes life's direction I love to set one goal after another as fast as one falls through there is another goal to take its place Theres There's no time to morn morna a lost direction Each goal is more exciting than the next I continually amaze myself at the outlandish ideas that come into my head But now for the big one the new years resolution to beat all new years year's resolutions Lets Let's see Im I'm sure I could be an astronaut That's it Wait there is something about a weight limit for astronauts a model in her thirties that's it Maybe after four children my figure has deteriorated a little Ok I got it The one thing that is stopping me from all the things I want the New Years Year's resolution that will change my life l e the most I VOW TO LOSE WEIGHT R LOVE MOM Ps So its it's not original the plans behind it is You dont don't really have to stop reading this column to change your life but ut if you stopped it would definitely change mine |