Brain Food Daily #359
A resolution for 2020
Daily Brain Food.
Thoughts of the day
Thank you for reading Brain Food. After unplugging, mentally, for a few weeks, Brain Food is back just in time for the new year.
Speaking of years, when does one actually start? Is it not bizarre to know that a year starts at different points in time across the world, on the same day, and in some cultures and calendars it may even start days later?
Why do we then wait until a milestone we ourselves created, to be able to make a new start, to take a leap into the selves we aspire to be?
Life is part planning, part failure to remain faithful to those plans. T. S. Eliot wrote: “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” As we change with time, making resolutions today that will last for an entire year is an attempt that is as much futile as it is hopelessly optimistic.
Though it is part of our nature to create things to believe in, to want to look forward to the future and plan it as much as possible in order to control time, maybe Bill Waterson’s approach is better:
“I'm resolving to just wing it and see what happens.”