New Year Better Me

We’ve all heard the great cliche, “new year, new me.” I was thinking about this cliche, and with my literal/pragmatic line of thinking, along my belief of creation and evolution, this cliche didn’t stick with me very well. To me “new me” is saying that the “old you” is being destroyed, and a new you is being created, that’s not evolution, that’s destruction and creation. With that being said, this is likely going to be a short post—I didn’t even plan to write this week—so let’s talk about this expression.

While I don’t personally like the diction of this expression I see the idea. For the next year, the next orbit around the sun, the next 365.25 days. 52 weeks, you want to be ‘new’ and ‘fresh’—because new cars smell amazing. The message I feel this cliche is conveying is that you should be better, become someone objectively ‘better’ than the person who lived the previous one or more years in your body.

There’s a couple reasons people could believe this, the first being, insecurity. Insecurity is a strong force in humans, and it is usually the cause of ego. People want to be better, because they’re not enough right now. That is a fallacious belief, there is nothing wrong with being better, however there is something wrong with the belief that you’re not enough. You need to know who you are, you need to understand the person you are, and from that, come to terms with your flaws, and then evolve. The second reason people might believe this is for a challenge, forming new habits, sticking to them, it’s not easy, and it’s a challenge. A third being they want to improve their life, this is the gym, and eating better resolutions we all either hear or make. The next reason is purely evolution. People want to grow, and evolve, these are the people that are most likely to stick to these ‘resolutions’ for the reason of, throughout the entire year they were becoming better, day by day, week by week, month by month, and a year is nothing more than another arbitrary term to do what they know they should be doing, evolving.

My take on this expression is that it should be worded differently, “new year, better me,” not new, you’re fine, but like everything, you “could be better.” You don’t need to recreate yourself, just evolve. I believe the new year can always be great for those that want it to be a clean slate, and I think that’s fine. Personally one day is one day, months and years don’t matter to me much, I don’t label time like that, but they’re always great.

With all of that said, I’ll end it here, my next post will likely be about habits, and sticking with those resolutions. I hope you guys have an amazing new year, and have an amazing 2019, Have an amazing week or two, I’ll see you soon, peace. Original

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