Happy New Year

So Christmas down and now New Years. One thing I don't like about New Years is everyone make promises they never keep. If you don't count in the news and politics, was 2015 really all that bad? Was it any different than the year before, or the one before that? 

 That's the crazy thing about the Holiday and personally I don't want anything to do with that. It's just excuses. If you are one to keep to your resolutions,  then fine, but if you know after a few days,  a week, a month, you are going to be back to the same way, then forget it. 

If you are going to make a promise to yourself to do something, then that's it. You do it. 

Personally, I made the decision to get down and dirty with my writing and didn't need any special day to do it. I just made the decision. I had been sitting on material and working on things here and there, but let minor things hold me back. Could have been I was too tired, or this show was on tonight, or I had to do that thing. Whatever the case, if you are going to do something, just do it. 

Some people like to use a jump-off spot, so make that now. I'm just going off of what I see year after year, and universal jokes I hear all the time about unkept resolutions. I've even heard some people boast, "Oh,  this is the year, we're gonna do it!" And it's almost as if they are setting themselves up for disaster. 

Now don't get me wrong, some people actually keep to their resolutions and that's a great thing to see. 

Well, sorry. This turned out to be a rant. 

If I don't post before then, to all that read this have a Happy New Year. 

And keep to your resolutions! 

WCM

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