Excellent. My wife and I go for a yearly retreat at the beginning of August—it's our anniversary, the beginning of the school year, the end of the gardening season, so it makes sense to think of "resolutions" at that time instead of in January. We never make new years resolutions, but at our retreat we set goals, talk about what we want in the year to come, and other stuff like that.
Excellent. My wife and I go for a yearly retreat at the beginning of August—it's our anniversary, the beginning of the school year, the end of the gardening season, so it makes sense to think of "resolutions" at that time instead of in January. We never make new years resolutions, but at our retreat we set goals, talk about what we want in the year to come, and other stuff like that.
But halfway through the essay, I thought: Wouldn't "resolve" be a fun resolution? Resolve self-conflict, trauma, and other various knots in the mind?
Maybe too esoteric, but I like it. In the same vein as inner peace.
"How many people have the goal of inner peace as their New Year’s resolution?"
Count me as one, then.
Well argued and well articulated. When you used the word "lovable," I connected your essay to Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments.
When you botch a job you fail at it, when you bodge a job it shouldn’t work yet somehow just about does. --> that's a fine distinction!
Excellent thoughtful piece. Good way to start the year