New Year's Resolution: Practical Optimist or Optimistic Realist

I used to think that crafting New Year Resolutions belong to two groups the sappy optimists or or societal proletariats. Sappy optimists that make resolutions and because they believe; only for half to crack under the pressure 3 months into the new year, and for the other half to be driven borderline the point of obessession. And societal proletariats or drones in the sense that they make New Year Resolution because it's tradition, it's part of societal norm. It's simply something that one does comes the end of December and the looming of January. But perhaps I'm being too cynical because as I have been looking back on this past year, my reflection has not only filled me with an overwhelming sense of gratitude but it has also caused me to look forward. And these are some of my New Year's Resolution.

• Pray and read scriptures daily
• Cultivate faith, hope, and charity
• Trust in the Lord: Consult Him in all things
• Bear my testimony
• Pray and fast for a personal revelation
• Blog/Write in journal weekly
• Fast weekly
• Lose weight
• No sugar and no fried foods
• Work out 5 days a week
• Save Money: Buy a new laptop and a new used car, ticket to Hawaii and Texas and California.
  

So perhaps I fall into the category of the sappy optimist. Though I rather prefer a practical optimist, or an optimistic realist. Either way, I've decided that yes, sometimes the dream has turned into a nightmare. And we tell ourselves that we were simply fools for believing and that reality however bleak is better. We convince ourselves that it is better that we never dream at all. But I believe that the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream and most of the time find ourselves miraculously faced with a fresh dream a better dream that we have never considered as we stay the course and strive for the quest of the ideal. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful and excited, rejuvenated and believing. And I think ultimately, we realize that in the face of everything, in the face of life and all it throws at us, the true dream is being able to dream at all. So that's why I'm making and attempting to keep/realize all my New Years Resolutions.

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