I have managed to keep almost all of my new year’s resolution over the last decade or more. The trick is to keep the number low, so you can concentrate on what’s important. I usually pick “zero”.
If New Years is arbitrary and making New Year’s Resolutions is thereby arbitrary, why not just say any day is okay (or just as good as any other) for making a resolution. Or, as has been said by many before, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
If every adult became seriously depressed at all the useless resolutions they blow away, think of the lines at psychiatrists’ offices. Caulfield is just developing his level of transient angst earlier than most. It doesn’t last long.
Where the years begin and end varies greatly from culture to culture and even within cultures. It doesn’t even have to be even to a month—I have this vague notion that at one point the “English” new year bagan on 15 March or something like that. In any case, for a time February was the first month among the Romans (N.B. “september, october” etc. etc. the “seventh, eighth” etc. months, and the words were literally “seventh month” etc. (Old Latin *septem-mensris which yields September by regular Latin sound laws).
Aussie65 almost 3 years ago
January is the start of the school year (Down Under anyway)… admittedly end of January…
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
I have managed to keep almost all of my new year’s resolution over the last decade or more. The trick is to keep the number low, so you can concentrate on what’s important. I usually pick “zero”.
chireef almost 3 years ago
new years was just last week wasn’t it?
Doug K almost 3 years ago
If New Years is arbitrary and making New Year’s Resolutions is thereby arbitrary, why not just say any day is okay (or just as good as any other) for making a resolution. Or, as has been said by many before, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
rshive almost 3 years ago
Apparently not bugging Mrs. Olsen was not among them.
f_murphy almost 3 years ago
I do mine at the beginning of the old roman new year – 1 March
sandpiper almost 3 years ago
magnus almost 3 years ago
March was always historically the new year, I always thought is was silly to have the tenth month be the end of the year, but it is now.
GoBlue almost 3 years ago
Is that supposed to be an M-1 shirt?
Harvey Bug almost 3 years ago
My favorite strip on this subjecthttps://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2011/01/02
Moonkey Premium Member almost 3 years ago
It used to drive me nuts to deal with two calendars in my head – school and regular. Not an issue any more.
phoenixnyc almost 3 years ago
Or the first day of spring?
mfrasca almost 3 years ago
Close proximity of New Year’s Day and a day to atone for past behavior? Jewish folk are way ahead of you.
AndrewSihler almost 3 years ago
Where the years begin and end varies greatly from culture to culture and even within cultures. It doesn’t even have to be even to a month—I have this vague notion that at one point the “English” new year bagan on 15 March or something like that. In any case, for a time February was the first month among the Romans (N.B. “september, october” etc. etc. the “seventh, eighth” etc. months, and the words were literally “seventh month” etc. (Old Latin *septem-mensris which yields September by regular Latin sound laws).
wsedrel Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Never made N Y’s resolutions; made N S Y res. instead. Kept up thru early October (& the semester ran thru January [early ’60’s])!