A New Year.

My friend calls them “Resolutionaries”. My gym is packed with them right now. I have to wait in line for the treadmill. And the weights. And the ab rockers. And the lateral pull down. And the toilet. To define these people, I have found a very credible source called Urban Dictionary ;-) defining them as, “People who join a gym after the New Year, only to quit going within 3 months. i.e. I couldn't find a free treadmill, the place was crawling with resolutionaries.”
Hopefully it will die down soon, but until then, there’s a line.
I do have a couple of ways I would interpersonally like to change within myself for the “new year”, although I start assessing this internally in December.
1. Think more positive.
2. Run a 5k for a cause.
3. Eat to live, not live to eat.
4. Be better at staying in touch with old friends.
5. Save money/pay off loans/get new job.

Okay, I know these are pretty generic as well, but let me go over them with you.

1. Positive: also includes: not being quick to judge, looking for the good in people, developing a small altruistic view on life. I suppose this also stems from having a low self esteem, but mine is rising again (Thanks to Planet Fitness, the original judgment free zone)HA.

2. I could have said a ½ marathon, which would be nice, but I would like to run for a cause and raise some money. I have done no research on this topic so that is all. I know this may be the most standard and nonspecific resolution, but hey, it looks good on paper.

3. Eat to Live: WOW okay, this is definitely the hardest one for me. Food is amazing. I love cooking it, eating it, playing with it, taking pictures of it, presenting it, force-feeding others to try new foods (sorry Mom and Es), and so on. I heard this phrase from my mother when I was in High school and going through some young teenage diet fad, and she told me not to think about food and diet so much, just ‘eat to live…not live to eat.’ Apparently my enlightened mother was quoting the one and only Buddha. He also said that hunger is the worst illness because we are born with it and can never cure it until our lives are over. There are a couple more eating principles that Buddha has such as respecting the labor that people have put into creating the meal, to commit good deeds worthy of sharing the meal, arrive at the table without negative feelings towards anyone, eat in order to achieve spiritual and physical well being, and be dedicated in pursuit of enlightenment. My only qualm is that Buddha is usually portrayed as fa….er…having a big belly?

4. Staying in touch. It’s not too hard, and now that I have upgraded from

THIS:

TO THIS: (env3)
texting is a lot easier now, therefore, so is staying in touch.

5. Save money/pay off loans/get new job has been a goal of mine since I was 12. So just out of habit, I must include this. (and the fact my loans are a LOT bigger than ‘pay Kelly that $1.50 I owe her').

All this said and done, we’ll see how I do this year. Good luck to all of you with your new year’s resolutions, but please stay away from my treadmill time. :)