You do Not Need a New Year’s Resolution; You Need to Think Less

Our world seeks unity in rapid movement, constant stimulation, standards, linear trajectory, and methodology. From childhood, we are expected to utilize our anatomy as a placeholder to advance the systematic procedures of the earth’s rotational movements. Unfortunately, it is essential to assimilate to a certain extent because we are prenatally co-dependent with the services, values, laws, and resources that sustain us. Although coerciveness may become animated in how the sun digresses because influence is contagious, it is okay to resign from the position you have succumbed to, even if you cannot survive with completely autonomous intentions. 

You do not need a New Year’s resolution; you need to think less. Have you ever thought about a hobby you desired to start, a career you wanted to pursue, or habits you wanted to develop? What intervenes and makes the thought remote and nebulous? Does logic only exist in what has been endorsed from a higher hierarchical position? Can you ponder these thoughts without a double standard? Does plausibility bind to a one-sided dream in our world? 

Multiple New Year's resolutions are just modifications of fabricated standards we must meet to achieve the closest variant of nirvana that realism offers in the doctrine that is unconsciously ingrained in us. We need to go to the gym because it can enhance our privilege, prestige, and capability to please others; we must be more productive but only in areas that are profitable for our future, and we must be more determined to achieve goals that are not inherently our own. We need to care more, invest in our future, wake up earlier, invest in our future, talk to more people, invest in our future, and dress and act according to others' preferences to invest in our future. We must achieve a diametric mirage to satisfy the world around us and deceive ourselves into accepting that there are no achievable differences.

 Our goals and habits should reflect how our mind vocalizes innate disruptions in our structural routines. It is a privilege to live candidly and exercise your individuality. The stigma, standards, and one-dimensional preaching of feigned dreams are all intangible. Although income and commodities are crucial, no physical hands are holding you down. If you want something bad enough, why waste the energy on negating it and alienating yourself from its gravitational pull? The figurative dominance of money is bound to encounter us all. Scrutinize it while prioritizing the passion you project, not the regret you swallow. 

I do not want to be too existential; however, I feel that the burdensome reality that death will encounter us at some point is a notion that our thoughts only skim without full recognition. Although denial is a survival instinct and a year’s longitude is organically retailored, it can also be used to be more constructively impulsive to cultivate a life that is almost entirely our property. To understand the futility of others’ opinions because they will inevitably dissipate and the autonomy to choose what you want to remain. Your anatomy is the only promised relationship you have along with your intrinsic values and instincts. So, maybe your reluctance to try something new is not laziness but the subconscious knowledge of its externally enforced predetermined value and fate. 

Challenge your tethered mindset this new year and abide by your own boundaries, rules, and aspirations. Ensure you are the one that imprints the level of success expectancy on those aspirations because it is a spectrum; each decision you make oscillates on a spectrum. You are not obliged to fit into a mold from a recurring lineage and remain interchangeable among your peers. 

Your New Year's resolution should not be to be objectively better or undergo an absolute rebirth but to unravel what you have suppressed. It is much easier to retrieve what is already present than assimilate and summon absent qualities. Conformity is the thief of identity. In the new year acknowledge the authority you have to do what you want. It is often, ironically, forgotten and passively astray in the itinerary inscribed to you.