Resolutions

One of my favorite pastimes lately has been Googling. As it is the first day of 2011, I decided to enter "new year" into the search bar, which led me to spend a good part of the day thinking about how and why people celebrate the start of the new year.  New Years Eve is a holiday that simply celebrates the passage of time.  It makes sense then that people use this occasion to look back on the past year and to make goals for the year to come.

I have maintained and broken my fair share of new year's resolutions in the past: eating healthier, picking up a new hobby, avoiding procrastination, etc. But this year I really want to make a meaningful resolution. I am writing this in the hopes that the perfect resolution will materialize before the end of the day, with less than one hour left... so much for not procrastinating!

**Afterthought:  Perhaps maintaining this blog will be my new personal commitment?