not really into resolutions

but some New Year reflections, nonetheless

No one’s really writing about “New Year’s Resolutions” anymore, are they? I hope we’ve ditched the “New Year, New You!” jargon and are collectively shifting away from the idea that discipline and coercion will free us. If we are doing some ritualistic reflecting, maybe we can work with “intentions”, and be a little softer with ourselves whether we accomplish them.

Usually, I rebel against setting resolutions - or really anything when I feel I am being coerced (even just by a societal norm. what can I say, I’m stubborn). But there is still something appealing about the invitation to think and dream beyond day-to-day/week-to-week at the outset of the new year. Over the past couple of weeks, I have found myself in a headier space - reflecting on what’s worked, what hasn’t, and how I might morph and budge my habits in a direction that feels more true to who I am growing into.

Throughout my early-mid 20s, I applied quite a strict structure to how I managed my time and my life. In my first…