Uh, yes. They are.
When I was eleven, I made forty two resolutions. Forty two. I ended up breaking EVERY single one of them. That taught me the first important lesson about new year resolutions: you're going to break them.
The second lesson I learnt was from my dad. He told me that most gyms had the highest number of new members during January. By the time March came around, about 85% members had fizzled out. By July, only 10% of the original members kept up with their memberships. Okay, these numbers are highly fabricated by yours truly but that's the important lesson: don't wait for January to sign up for something. Don't wait for January to quit smoking. If you were actually planning on doing it, you wouldn't be waiting for the first day of the new year. You'd just do it.
And the third important lesson is something I've gradually come to realize. Things like "I will get full marks on all my tests", "I will not lie" and shit like "I will exercise" is exactly what it sounds like, which is bullfuckingshit. So the trick is to start small and start easy and pick something which is at least a 0.1% feasible.
Basically, no resolutions for me except to change my apathetic attitude about every single life situation, stop being a pig when it comes to eating, and just write, godddamnit. And because I'm more in-touch with myself due to these online personality tests I've taken to doing lately, I know I'm not going to keep any one of them. I wish I'd write more because it seems like an important thing to do, but like Bukowski said, "My ambition is handicapped by my laziness." And that just sounds like a convenient excuse for not doing anything which I realize and thus I take back everything I've written and basically, this paragraph is void.
I've spent the whole day online, watching movies (Looper and Howl's Moving Castle. Both were decentish fun, but didn't really call out to my soul) and downloading shitloads of music. I'm now grooving to the Beach Boys' Holland and I have Britney (goddess) and Lou Reed for the whole of this week. I also finished Stardust today, which was nice and stuff but I couldn't really enjoy it too much because I've got the movie stuck in my head. The ending was, however, perfectly bittersweet.
