I wonder how many people wrote down and/or published their New Year’s Resolutions for 2025. Are they evaluating their year gone by? Not so fast. There are a few more days to get them fulfilled and check that box.
One site asks the question this way: “How many New Year’s Resolutions come true?” Sounds more like a fairy tale wish, or buying a lottery ticket. Look at the resolutions - all kinds of very demanding things: Exercise more, eat healthier, lose weight, save money/spend less, mental well-being, learning new skills, improving relationships and cutting back on unhealthy habits like smoking or excessive screen time. That’s 2025’s resolutions.
For 2024 they were health (exercise, diet, weight loss) and finances (saving more, managing money), alongside improving mental well-being and relationships with family and friends. Seems like a Ditto moment.
What about 2023? Another Ditto moment.
I wouldn’t want to survey back to Babylonian times when resolutions likely started to find out if this is consistent every year. There is a survey at education.casio.co.uk with statistics for 2018. That’s far enough in the past for me:
Save money – 53%
Lose weight or get into shape – 45%
Travel more – 24%
Read more books – 23%
Learn a new skill or hobby – 22%
Buy a house – 21 %
Looks like mental health has moved up the ladder, and travel, reading, buying a house have probably dropped way down. This comparison of resolutions might be digging too far into the details. It could be that after these thousands of years we are moving away from New Year’s Resolutions. One article called them “good intentions” - seems more realistic. On the other hand, there’s a trend to even more resolutions - one article has the top 150 examples of New Year’s Resolutions.
And ha ha! In there is the best resolution in the world - it is 7680 x 4320 pixels. Something I think is very funny as I hadn’t been looking for a joke at that point.
Aren’t bubbles a most amazing thing. I took this picture recently at the Good Earth.
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