2016.

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and a happy start to the new year. I spent most of my holiday, well practically all of it, trying to heal up from my mini surgery. I had a little bit  trouble sleeping last night. In an effort to exhaust myself, I started thinking about the whole "New Year, New Me" mantra. I have mixed feelings about it. Simply because, I believe that when humans are brought into this world, we arrive as everything we are going to be. The rest of life is spent cultivating and nurturing the personality and soul we came out with. Of course I can firmly say, that there are choices in life that can modify and alter the people that we are  over time.  Nonetheless, my overall consensus is that we were already who we were going to be when we got here. So, one can understand why  hearing "New Year, New Me", makes me thoroughly skeptical. That  mantra can only be put forth genuinely, if an individual was to modify oneself to be disciplined and stick to whatever they want to accomplish. No one changes solely because the year does, that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Another reason I feel so funny about that mantra is due to the fact that one shouldn't wait on 12 a.m.  New Year's day to declare a seemingly meaningful change. A person should be  wanting to improve themselves, and make themselves into the best person they can be, consistently. 365 days of the year. Not only when the ball in Times Square drops, and the proverbial slate is wiped clean. If someone was jerk all of 2015 and then they say "New Year, New Me" my first thoughts are, I hope the hell so because the "old you" wasn't cutting it. I'm not saying all of this to make the people  who actually believe in that mantra feel bad. I'm sure everyone whose ever said it, actually had great intentions. However, it is the execution on  intentions that really matters. If a person is not ready to put their all into standing by that mantra, why even bother putting pressure on themselves in such a way? If one doesn't change and they said they were planning on it, then they are the metaphorical 'Boy Who Cried Wolf'. Someone  who declares change for the future constantly, but has yet follow through is worse however, because the day said individual decides to modify oneself, truly, those who love them will have already lost faith in the validity of their perseverance. So I suggest, saving the "New Year, New Me" hype and just work on becoming a better person every day, all day, slowly and surely.