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I’ve set New Year’s resulotion or un-resolution but I haven’t been carrying those plans out religiously.  Maybe it’s just a human weakness that I don’t really want to face.  Whenever we make a plan, we’re doomed to encounter some unexpected changes.  We can’t foresee the future, so how can we plan everything out till the very last minute detail?  I guess I’m only looking for futile excuses to justify why I haven’t stuck with my own resolution.  The truth is that I wasn’t ready and I pushed myself.  Obviously I wasn’t going too far.  But I feel ready now.  At least for now I know that I can do this and I’ll try my best.  So here come my February resolutions.

1. I will lose 10 pounds.  (I’m not going to set a time frame or deadline.  I just know I’ll lose these 10 extra pounds that don’t belong to me.)

2. I will take a vigorous walk every day, whether it snows or rains outside.

3. I will finish reading the last 3 volumes of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time in 2008.

4. I will make some serious and casual creative endeavors in the next 10 months.

5. I will write more.

6. I will talk less and listen more.

7. I will finish reading all the books on our shelves before buying any new book.