Resolutions - the dynamics behind it

What amused me, ever since I grasped the concept of new years and how significant they were to resolutions, was how people weighted the starting of a year more than the ending of one. While the laws of nature keep stressing on the beauty of finishing, we humans spend a great deal of our last few days of a given year planning on how to start another. Quite absurd isn't it. When you look back at a given year, the bare fact is no matter how good you started it, it's how happy you were by the finish that really counts. Take the last lap of a marathon, the last few minutes of a hockey game, the last answers of an exam, the last ingredient in you dish, the last paragraph of a novel or just the last departing words to a friend. Isn't a closing ceremony more grand and well remembered than an opening. For it encompasses all the ups and downs, the trials and successes and ultimately the joy of completion. I wouldn't look back at a year and feel happy because it started good and ended bad. Rather every single thing I did all through that made a long lasting impact and made me bid it with a fair sense of gratitude. That doesn't mean we start a new year with an old page. Just let not a upcoming year blur you from the present. A smart thing to do would be perhaps, to make resolutions which determine how you conclude the new year. Wanting to be successful, powerful or more human. Focus on a December 2011 and what all you wish to be by that point. With that in mind, breaking resolutions may not be that easy after all. As for my resolution, by this time next year, I wish to have a bigger platform to publish my article. A Facebook cousin which will incorporate publishing houses just as well. Catch u there.