I Am Resolving for the New Year!

Hola my peoples!

How are those New Year Resolutions coming along? Hitting the gym? Eating healthier? Being a better friend? Husband? Wife? Boyfriend? Girlfriend? Overall better person?

Now, I don’t usually do resolutions at New Year’s, since my year revolves around school and January is only the halfway point in the school year. So if anything, I make my resolutions at the beginning of each school year (toward the end of August).

I wrote these down as my resolutions and goals back in August to be done during my first year of college:

1. Get to know/ get along with my roommate- first and foremost

2. Make friends on my own [especially with my R.A (residential assistant) and the food servers in my dining hall]

3. Run at least a few times a week

4.Do projects at a productive rate (aka don’t procrastinate)

5. Check out the martial arts club

6. Check out the religious groups

7. Remain single for (at least) the first semester (hopefully all year)

8. Continue finding and working on scholarships

9. Remember: “Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none” (Benjamin Franklin)

10.Remember, in times of anxiety: “Peace, quiet, tranquility” (Starfire from Teen Titans)

11. Speak (my mind), be the “new” person I am inside and let her shine, and do something I thought I’d never do

 

Definitely a long list. But I’ve actually completed a few of them already; the ones that aren't highlighted have been completed (although obviously they’re all a work in progress). I’m pretty satisfied that I’ve done so many of these already.

But this year, I want to do something that I realized have not done in years, and I decided to make it my New Year’s Resolution since I had my “epiphany” just before Winter Break. And my resolution is this:

1. Treat myself better

I need to take care of myself and pay attention to my needs and feelings more. I do not mean this in a conceited way. I’ve been focusing on doing things with my life for the good of others before doing things for myself for so long. And the things that I thought I did for myself were really for other people and, to make it worse, those favors that I did only did harm to me, making me feel like crap. I want 2013 to be the year that this changes. I have a new college, a new start, a new life- now the only thing that I need to change is me and how I treat myself.

This means that I have to start putting my needs first before even thinking about helping others. Because if I can’t even help myself, how can I help others? I’ve been asking myself that question since August, and I want to get to the point where I do not have to ask this of myself anymore.

Seven days into the new year, I have already taken care of a few things- bought clothes and supplies for myself, tended to this blog and my art, and taken some time to just sit down and read books and watch my favorite shows and YouTube videos with my family. It’s a good start- but the real test comes next week when I am back on campus.

What are your resolutions? Do you make them for the new year or throughout the year and do you complete them? I hope you guys are doing the same and changing things for yourself to improve your life- not just at New Year’s but year-round. Don't just plan it- do it. Thanks for reading guys!

Resolving to end this post,

~H.P. Echo~

P.S- Since I’m not going to do the video thing, I’m thinking about putting together a little treat for you guys by animating a video. Don’t expect it to be anything fancy- I’m just playing around with DeviantArt Muro and randomly free-drawing right now because I need another flash-drive to put my pictures and videos on, and it will take a while, but it's for fun and I think it’ll be worth the time.