2020, Post 183

Post #183 of 2020.
Well, this is it -- the long awaited final day of the year 2020.
The realist in me isn't expecting anything miraculous (or even different) from tomorrow. We'll throw out the old calendar and breakout a new one, but nothing else is going to change.

With the new calendar page, many will make short-term promises or resolutions and work on changing some habits, attitudes, or lifestyles, but change is difficult and old, familiar ways are easy so...
The truth is we have that same opportunity every single day -- set the past behind us and make changes for the future. What makes January 1st different from any other day?
Remember the old saying, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life?"

Go ahead and make those changes. Go for a run. Pass on the desserts and junk food snacks. Stop drinking. Stop swearing. Write a letter or send a card. Whatever your plans are for being a better you -- do that. 
And if you mess up, there's always the next day for starting over.

But we never really get a clean slate. The consequences of our past will follow us. On January first -- DJT will still be president, another 200,000+ people (in the US) will test positive for covid, 3,000+ more people will die from it, vaccine distribution will be stalled, and I'll still be a fat, curmudgeonly 60 year old man.
Change is slow, elusive, and often difficult, but we are an adaptive species and change will come a little at a time.

No real resolutions for me. However...
There's a saying -- When you know better, you do better.
That will be my goal for each day -- Know more. Be better.

Happy New Year!

John