Like my good friend Kathleen Scott said in her recent post, "Easy Resolutions," on her beautiful blog, Hill Country Mysteries, she's resolved to Make new mistakes this year. I can concur with her, as that comes easy for me. That and an even easier pledge to myself (and others) to everyday eat some bread of some kind--that would be a resolution I could easily keep!
I have three resolutions this year that I think are doable. Since I don't diet and always avoid or run away from exercise, and you'd laugh at the balance in my savings account, I have to be a bit creative here in what I choose to accomplish. Here they are in no particular order of occurrence/importance, just some things I could do more of:
- Laugh with friends. -whenever and where ever I get the chance. I hear it's "good for the soul" and "the best medicine" for what ails your blues--I figure "it won't kill me," and if it does, then I'll die with (the proverbial) "a smile on my face!"
- Sleep less. Much of my living is to be done awake, so why sleep it off and away...the precious moments and opportunities I may have left. There will soon enough be the Big Sleep, when we lie down with our ancestors and won't awake except at one of two Gates!
- Play it again. I realize (again), as an adult now, that there should exist at least a balance of obligations with a sense of escape, maybe greater and tilted toward play, like I did as kid. I take myself and situation way too serious sometimes.
