Another Year, Another Post

Yippee! Recently the Earth completed a full orbit around the Sun, taking just over 365 days to leave and return to an arbitrary point along the orbit! Isn't that exciting? Obviously it's a good reason to declare your intentions to do something specific during this next orbit, such as losing weight.

Yeah, New Year's really doesn't mean much to me because it's a bit too arbitrary. Seriously, why does the calendar reset now? Why not on a solstice or equinox; an actually significant annual point in time? (Actually I think it might have something to do with how leap days did not always exist but I'm not certain and that's not the point of this post.)

What is the point of this post? Honestly I'm not sure…. Not making an resolutions this year since really the only positive ones I can think of either aren't that positive or completely dependent on other people. Such dependency makes my own commitment to the resolution pointless as a failure to achieve the resolution may not be a personal failure, and resolutions are supposed to be personal.

So, what resolutions can I think of? Well, the first one to jump to mind is to get a job. Don't have any control over that though. (If I did, I'd be employed and probably too busy to bother with this blog.) I can apply, restructure my resume, and write new cover letters, but that doesn't mean I'll even hear back from an employer. Quite frustrating really; never hearing back. Nothing I can do about it though but try again, eventually.

Another positive resolution I can think of is to find someone I can actually trust and rely on. Have friends I can trust, but not that I can rely on really. Quite sad, I guess. Kind of hard to be sure though since I've known such unreliable people for many years. To their credit though, it's just when it comes to me that they seem to be unreliable. I'm sure they are reliable when it comes to their work and other important responsibilities of theirs.

Really though, that last resolution is a positive spin on the actual resolution I thought of which is to continue to not trust in the the reliability of humanity and people. Instead I shall trust in chaos, which is a part of reality I made peace with long ago. Once you give up on having faith in plans, hopes, and dreams you can better prepare for failures, and move on from them more quickly. After all, there's always that unknown variable in an unpredictable pattern, so just try to control the others the best you can, and deal with what you can't. Things will just be how they will and should be. It is a stable equilibrium this chaos leads to, in other words.

I'm not the most cheery person, am I? Have a good New Calendar! Maybe it will be better than the last. My bet is the differences will end up neutral.