everything you could do in the New Year

(This post was originally written by Zwierz Popkulturalny, a Polish blogger, who posted it on Tumblr. I got her permission to translate it to English and repost it with a link to the original.)

Making decisions in the dark middle of winter is hard. And yet every year, people try to change their lives in many ways, just because they've changed the calendar (not that they've used it to note anything down for years, but they've gotten used to the pretty pictures changing every month). We make decisions we can't completely fulfill; we promise to get more sleep, eat less, and run every day. And then in February, when we're pushing away the empty plate in a restaurant and yawning because we were up sitting in front of the computer until three am, we feel only distaste and disgust towards ourselves. Being weak-willed hurts the most when we're aware of the weakness.

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Mirrored from Tangents and Digressions.