resolutions i probably won't keep

2025 · 01

It's the middle of January, about the right distance from the 1st to make resolutions from. Close enough to still feel like they might happen, far enough that I've stopped pretending I'll turn my whole life around overnight.

The list is short. Short is its only hope.

• Read a bit more.
• Walk even when it's cold and I'd rather not.
• Do the small jobs instead of letting them pile into that low background hum of guilt. The drawer. Still, always, the drawer.
• Keep these notes going, though that one seems to be holding on its own so far.

I know how it goes. By February most of this will have quietly lapsed and I won't even notice the day it did. But it's written down now, and there's a bit of pressure in that. Maybe that carries the first month.