Happy New Year! Every year I write down a list of resolutions, many of them the same each and every year...lose weight, read more, exercise regularly, blah, blah, blah. Instead of New Years resolutions this year I have decided to work on my "life list" that I created the month I turned 40. The list is the 40 things I want to do the year I turned 40! It is a very ambitious list, but hey, I've got time. I am not going to list them all at once, but rather as I complete them I will write about them in the blog.
What is weird is that as I have entered into the new year I have found myself reading all of the magazines that have piled up around the house. Mostly women's magazines, Essence, Self, Glamour, etc. What I have noticed is a disturbing trend, all have articles touting how to become a "New Person" in the new year. Which makes me ask the question, "What is so wrong with someone, that they need to become a new person?" I am not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but I like the person I am. I don't want to become a new person! Hell, it has taken me 40 years to learn to love all the flaws I have and accept that they are a part of me. Why do I have to change? And if I do chane and become a "New Person", who am I going to hang out with? Everybody that I am are friends with now, likes who I am now. So I have decided not to become a new person, but instead I will try to improve the person I am. 2009 will definitely be interesting.
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