Its the start of a new year once again ladies ad gentlemen, and word on the street is, its going to be a lucky green year because its the year of the earth ox.
*I thought that since its the EARTH ox, it couldve been brown.*
Anywho. The start of the new year, well, triggers the quite funny antics of people who wish to clamor for change and want to start the new year right. People often promise to do this to a certain extent, but ends up breaking the promise after an unforeseen circumstance. Filipino's are quite fond of this antic, and so does the rest of the world. They call it their new years resolution, but I call it a cliche.
Every year, its like part of an ancient Filipino New Year tradition, the media noche, the making of those irritating noises when midnight strikes, the creepy polkadot dress and shirts, the frantic running just to open all the lights in the house, the illogical jumping up and down just to gain some height, and, ah,yes, the new years resolution.
"Oh, you know mommy, i have a new years resolution up my sleeve...*with eyes whose expression was like she found her doll that was ravaged by racoons*"
"What is it baby?? *with all the weird enthusiasm of a mother*"
"I wont lie anymore... *better hope his fingers were crossed*"
And so many other resolutions like this kept on harping and being heard all over the town, like so and so would not drink anymore (but would eventually drink when there is an "occassion"), and that so and so would be faithful, would try harder on his or her studies, would stop loving, would work hard, and other mundane stuff that they speak of.
Truly, it is the more brilliant example that it is easier said than done.
You know what I mean, these people *including me for the record* would babble up somr random stuff that he or wishes to do in order to attain change. New Years Resolution in fact are one of te most effective avenues where one couldve seen the things where they really do have flaws, and one of the many ways in which people would want to strive for change either for the betterment of themselves or the people around them in general.
But what is wrong in this scenario is that, you have to wait for 365 day intervention in order for people to wish change for themselves. They isolated themselves in an idea that "hey, its a new year, maybe I should change my attitude". Their sole distinct mark for change is just to wait for a new year so that there could be change.
What if the country was like that. What if the Philippines wanted to change the way the economy operates for the betterment, but would still wait for that 365 day time line.
Like the rest of the things that God created in this world, we could only attain the change we want if would do it in a daily basis, not just a one time big time promise that only happens once a year. If we would like something to improve within ourselves so that we could become better citizens of our nation and better children of God, we might as well try to find our humane faults and try to deal with them, like the saying, strike while the iron is hot. We must try to reduce the faults that we have into a minimal level so that it does not accumulate to anymore mistakes that we would likely do in the future. Why wait for a 365 day period just to see the many faults that you have already accumulated, where in one day at a time, you couldve changed it, and become a better person at the end of the year, and emerge as an even better person at its start.
All people do want to babble up things for the betterment of themselves, but they neglect the fact that change does not happen in a day. It takes a serious amount of time to achieve the thing or the change that you want, be it minute or ginormous. Its a step by step account on what are the things that we want to do just to achieve that change.
We might not as well strive for divine intervention or extreme enlightenment, but just random acts that would compound to the change we desire would be our best means, rather than resorting to such fallacies(?) like resolutions.
Are we still up for resolutions?
I know i'm not.
