Ok this idea just struck me. Why don’t I keep a diary about my New Year resolutions? Before that as a brief history, I will tell you what my resolution was. This year I figured that I would do something different. So this is what I decided.
I would for one month give up an item/ commodity/luxury that I loved. Okay seems easy enough. The first task was to identify what was on my loved list. Well, I wanted to start off with something relatively easy so non-veg food was the first item I chose to drop in the month of January.
January: ideally I would have lied to start off on 31st December night but there had been a party at my place and the kebabs left over had to be eaten. So I started off on Jan 4. the first few days were relatively easy but then by day 10 the cravings hit and I could think only fish and chicken. But by the time it was 20 days up I was ready to give it up for real. In fact, at one point I had reached a thought of giving up non-veg completely towards the end. Surprisingly, my mother was against this and asked me to cut down rather than stop completely. I finished this deal on the feb 4 and as a celebration on that day had really nice prawns and pomfret with dad. The next day I had chicken with Shakti. My current thinking process though is to reduce the amount of non-veg I eat restricting it to only twice a week.
February: Ok for this month I wanted to try something more difficult. So I have decided to give up chatting. Now if you know me you will know that I am really into chatting. In fact, there are times that I come on the comp only to chat and I can very happily wile away 3-4 hours just chatting. Doing this also required more determination as the thing is that unlike food cravings that hit me only after 10 days or so the chat craving hit me on day one. I think I am addicted so I was suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Also the thing is that the food cravings happen only during lunch/ dinner, chat cravings happen all the time. 24/7. But I must admit, that after the initial five days things got a lot more bearable. In fact, I no longer itch to hit the chat mode. On the up-side, I have finished 5 books in these days and I am currently reading three at one go. On the down side, my phone bill has hit 1000 after the cheaper mode of chatting was removed and I now have to rely only on my cell phone to keep in touch with the outside world. Parents are going to have a fit.
Well, that’s when I lost all enthusiasm and gave up the whole New Year resolution idea. Moral of the story…don’t start something impossible to finish. Cheers!!
