Starting Over

The New Year always feels so refreshing - a chance to start anew and make some changes. People make resolutions to do things they don’t usually do or to be increase things they already do. I, for one, plan on increasing my gym frequency this year! I want to spend more time at the gym as well as going more often to the gym when I go.

The problem with the New Year though is that sometimes it’s like that movie ‘Groundhog’s Day’; you just repeat the same things you were doing before in the hopes of getting it right. But it’s very rare that you get it right.

You get on the subway and hope there will be a seat but because it’s the New Year, all the commuters are back on the train with you. No more vacations that will considerably decrease the strap-hanger population. So the commute is annoying because it’s crowded and everyone is irritable.

You get to your office building and the elevators are packed because again all the vacationers are now back. The rudeness of the people who don’t hold doors and don’t say thank you when you hold one open for them is overwhelming. People with their idiosyncrasies and neurotic behaviors are the same because they haven’t made any resolutions to change things they don’t think are a problem.

So even though you might feel you are starting over in a better way, most things are the same so it’s disappointing to have a New Year sometimes.