#year of finishing things
Not a resolution post
Not a resolution post: In which I don’t make any resolutions but I do talk about the theme of the year.
I don’t trust New Year’s resolutions. It’s partly because human reckoning of time is entirely arbitrary and partly because I don’t believe that you can fix anything by declaring a new start and making a half-arsed attempt to start a bunch of new habits.
Perhaps I wouldn’t be so sceptical about resolutions if I’d had a better introduction to the idea. The first time I encountered resolutions was…