My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman by Scottoline Lisa & Serritella Francesca

Author:Scottoline, Lisa & Serritella, Francesca [Scottoline, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781429941815
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

Happy New Year

It’s true that I believe in UnResolutions, that is, resolving to keep doing things you like. But I also try to make the old-fashioned, conventional New Year’s resolutions.

As usual, I’m easy on myself.

I know I’m not going to keep all my resolutions, and that’s okay with me.

I always resolve to do things I know I won’t do, so why should New Year’s be any different? Last week, I resolved to get my truck inspected and my roots done. I didn’t do either. If you inspected my roots, I’d get a ticket.

Don’t mistake me, it’s not as if I didn’t intend to do the things I’d resolved to do. It just didn’t work out. And I don’t feel guilty about it, because there are so many other things to feel guilty about.

Ask Mother Mary.

Maybe the problem is with the word resolution. It has a legal vibe that’s no fun at all. A resolution is for a corporation or a national constitution. Resolved is a good start to a preamble about the right to free speech, but it’s overkill for me losing five pounds.

Resolution is just too intense for what we’re talking about. If you look it up in the thesaurus, its synonyms are dauntlessness, staunchness, and tenacity.

Got a headache yet?

I do.

I suggest we replace the word resolution with wish, and from now on, we can all make wishes for New Year’s. It’s dull to make a resolution, but it’s fun to make a wish. It makes you think of birthday cake.

Everybody loves birthday cake.

And if you look up wish in the thesaurus, its synonyms are desire, hankering, and itch.

Isn’t that better?

Wish doesn’t take itself as seriously as resolution, and neither should we. We’re just people, and often we fall short. To err is human, right? For Homo sapiens, failure is a job requirement.

If we stop resolving and start wishing, we would never fail, because nobody ever expects a wish to come true. For example, I wish I could marry George Clooney. I wish I could lose five pounds. I wish I had naturally blond hair, so I didn’t have to worry about my roots in the first place.

We know that none of my wishes is going to come true. But I really do wish for them. And I’d like to keep wishing for them. Wishing fulfills a human need that goes beyond common sense. After all, we buy Powerball tickets and hold presidential elections.

Somebody wins, but it’s never us.

I bet some of you are reading this and shaking your head. You agree that resolution is too hard-core, but you think wish is for slackers. You seek a compromise between resolution and wish. You wonder, isn’t there a middle ground?

Don’t despair. I have another word.

Aim.

How does aim suit you? You could make a list of New Year’s aims. I view aim as resolution with a fallback. With aim, you get to announce your resolution, but it automatically includes a Plan B. Like an exit strategy, built-in.

How would aim work?

Let’s say you aim to lose ten pounds this coming year.

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