Carl A wrote:
If you smoke make a new years resolution quit now
My former wife died last spring from smoking
Carl
I am saddened to hear of your Wife's death, but here is the truth about New Year's Resolutions:
It doesn't matter what you're trying to do or not do, New Year's Day may as well be The Fourth of July, St. Patrick's Day, Veteran's Day, Valentine's Day or the second Tuesday in September as far as that goes, for all the good it does!
Call me cynical, negative, or anything else you like, but at the end of the day, i'm a Realist. Carl, if you or anyone else on here thinks for a second that making a Resolution on a certain day, regardless of what day it is, that it's going to "Keep You" just because of the day you made it, then you have my sympathy.
Any time you do or don't do something for the wrong reasons, you're doomed to fail, it's just that simple. If you put more emphasis on the Day rather than the issue you're dealing with, you may as well be pissing in the ocean.
If you don't believe me, just look around you and you'll see the proof of what i'm saying in the disappointed people from New Year's Day 2013.
What i'm trying to say is simply this. If you want to do or not do anything badly enough, you can do it on any day of the year.
You have to do it for YOU and not for the DATE!
Yes, if you're wondering, i am a smoker and a stupid ass for being one, but i'm not stupid enough to believe i'm going to stop on January 1, 2014 just because it's New Year's Day. I think i'm going to shoot for March 11, that day has just bound to have some type of significance to make me stop smoking.
Happy New Year everyone!
R/T
(Realist Tom)