As the new year begins, people like to create a resolution as a goal to either break a bad habit, improve health and relationships, or work on self-improvement. All in all, resolutions originate to improve one’s life or positively impact others.
According to National Public Radio (NPR), an American non-profit public broadcasting organization dedicated to serving public interest, resolutions, a concept dating centuries back to 1671 based on a diary entry from Anne Halkett, an English religious writer and autobiographer, who pledged to not offend and to change for the better.
Today, this concept is still widespread and is an annual tradition for how people celebrate the holidays.
For freshman Gian Bruny, his resolution is to make a positive impact in a classroom setting and reduce his use of accents in class.
“My New Year’s resolution is to not give problem to the teacher and to work more harder. I always used to give problem to the teacher, act up in class and now my New Year’s resolution is to not speak like a crazy person and speak normally,” Bruny said.
Senior Jacob Regalado wants to help out the people closest to him in his life by providing them support. As of late last year, his passion towards being supportive led up to this year’s goal.
“Helping people a lot, because I have many friends who are in need in some type of support. Because, you know, not everyone has a good life, so I just want to be there and just help them and be with them,” Regalado said.
Last year in December, Regalado’s friend was stressed with personal matters and he validated and comforted them, which made his friend feel better, inspiring him to support those in his life.
“Mainly just continue to help out with fighters, whether it’s families or friends or anyone in need of help. I kind of, the last year, I only hope, a little bit, but, late November and early December, that’s where I kind of started to find my passion,” Regalado said.
In previous years, Regalado had resolutions but did not complete them as it was less serious for him until the situation with his friend last year that influenced his goal.
“I would say, oh, I would do this for the year, that’s my New Year’s resolution. But usually a case, I don’t really do it,” Regalado said.
Similar to Regalado, sophomore Areeana Trejo did not take resolutions as seriously before. However, she plans to stay committed this year.
“I have a couple New Year’s resolutions, but my main one is definitely learning how to drive and getting my driver’s license. Because, honestly, I like go places, I got go to a lot of places. So, people are getting older, they don’t want to drive me around. So I’m gonna take Driver’s Ed,” Trejo said.
While Regalado’s resolution is to focus on relationships, Trejo plans to focus on building a skill, which is to drive.
Resolutions are a longtime practice to move forward in life and change mentally and physically. Overall, it is to make a positive change in their lives whether learning skills, helping people or self-improvement.
