Hello again!

2025 is here!

Another circuit around the sun. Another slew of missed deadlines. Another 12 months of dust caking the exercise equipment I bought and promised to use regularly.

But — most importantly — another chance to do better.

The 'New Year's Resolution,' so called, is more than just an empty ritual. It is more than just a hollow promise we make ourselves. Maybe it is a chance to briefly believe that these promises are not hollow. Or maybe, just maybe, it is a chance to make our promises come true.

Stay with me, now — I'm driving towards a positive point, I promise.

Life is full of ups and downs, victories and defeats. As the second hand on the New Year clock passes from 11:59:59 to 12:00:00, it's easy to focus on what went wrong and what was left undone. For me, I worry about my books, how I'm not getting them finished as fast as I'd like, how full of imperfections they are, how I still haven't found the perfect font. I worry about a lot of things.

To those worries and regrets I say, "No!" I recommend you do the same.

Let's not focus on the bad stuff, but let's also not be unrealistic with our optimism.

My New Year's Resolution — my non-hollow promise to myself — is to do my best with what I have in the circumstances I am in.

Will I get up every day at 5am and go jogging?

No!

Will I eat only the cleanest, healthiest food?

No!

Will I become a paragon of charity, saving every life that needs saving?

No!

Not because those aren't good things, but because they're not realistic things. And if a thing is not realistic, then it can't really be considered good, can it?

Therefore, for 2025, my pledge is to try and fit in a bit of exercise when I can, cram an occasional veggie down my throat, and give a few dollars to a worthy cause.

You see, hollow promises are usually hollow because they are way too big. Imagine an ice cube tray the size of an Olympic pool with only a kitchen tap to fill it. Could you fill that in a year? No! Probably not in a decade! (Math heads help me out — how long would that actually take, accounting for the ice-cube dividers?)

Make promises that are easy to keep — that's my motto.

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