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December 31, 2004
New Year's Resolutions?
So where did New Year's Resolutions come from, anyway?
From The Chevron Cars
The dictionary says that making New Year's Resolutions is "setting goals for the New Year." As to where or how they originated, we only know that resolutions were already recorded by the Babylonians as far back as four thousand years ago!The New Year is a great time to look at the changes we would like to make in our lives and how to accomplish them. A resolution is like a promise to our selves to improve our lives and to make the New Year a better one for our selves and others. Even though their New Year began in March with the planting of new crops, the Babylonians made New Year's Resolutions just like we do. (One of their most common New Year's Resolutions was to return borrowed farm equipment.) They probably also experienced the same quandaries we do.
For instance, experience tells us that if we make a goal too hard to accomplish (like lassoing a tornado) we lose our interest and motivation; we feel defeated before we even get a good start. We also know that if the goal is too easy (like promising to breathe every day) we really won't change anything about our lives.
The Babylonians believed that whatever a person did on the first day of the year had an effect all year long. Hence, making a resolution with sincere intentions is a great way to start the New Year.
The article goes on to suggest some positive resolutions. But I got stuck on one phrase.
An effect all year long? That is some scary stuff right there. And here I thought that after the first few weeks of the years, when earnest resolutions are crashing left and right, the effect just fades away until next year's bumbling attempt. Maybe I should make a resolution to NOT make a resolution this year.
Hey, thanks for the writing opportunity, what a fun idea. :)
Tricia
Magickal Musings
Posted by at December 31, 2004 07:18 PM
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