Everyday This Year

So the jokes have been flying about the new year. "I've skied everyday this year!" And just before the clock struck twelve, "Get your drinks now or you'll have to wait until next year."

I've been working on my taxes all day so the new year is just the way I imagined it....ha, kidding.

As for resolutions....re-solutions. Mine is usually the same: be nicer. To everybody, especially myself. Ya see, y'all don't get to hear the banter in me brain that degrades and grinds all day up in the spacious goopy noggin. So, naturally, it has to start somewhere, and what better place than right at home. I just read a great Aldous Huxley quote that sort of encapsulates that idea with more grit:

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder."

Of course, one of the best ways to make this re-solution stick is to first own up when you are being unkind. And not beat the living daylights out of yourself when do catch yourself being not-so-nice. So, maybe awareness is really at the root of this re-solution. But man, no bigger obstacle to niceness than being in denial that you're being a jerk wad. Its all nice to think about and much harder to apply. Guess I've got another year to try my best at it.

"I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. - Lin Yutang