OPINION
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS JUST ARE NOT REALISTIC
People make New Year's resolutions just to fit in with others.
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t this time of the year, everyone is thinking the same thing; what will be my New Year’s resolution? People feel that they have to decide a different way ELLA KUNAR to live their life just because the calendar changes. This can cause a lot of stress and implement improper ways for people to deal with their habits. New Year's resolutions are a wasteful and ineffective way for people to change their lives. When choosing a New Year’s resolution, people go one of two ways. Some people scramble to come up with a resolution just to claim they have one. When people have a resolution that they have to think hard about to come up with and do not
have a reason or motivation behind it, The days and weeks that they continthe resolution will not turn out to be ue to do these habits only strengthen successful. If people want a change their connection to these problems. in their life just for the sake of having People should change these proba resolution and not to better themlems when they notice them, not wait selves, they will fail to feel motivated for the New Year and cement the enough to achieve the change in problems more into their routine. their life. Since these goals are mostPeople should constantly be looking ly random, they for ways to improve themwill be unattainselves. By taking action able goals for the upon their problems rath"People should New Year. These er than waiting for January constantly be looking 1st, they are more likely to goals can actually for ways to improve accomplish more. discourage improvement in peoPeople claim that the themselves." ple’s lives because New Year is a fresh start. they will be too This is simply illogical. high for people to reach, especially January 1st is a new day, just like any without motivation behind them. other day of the year. Rather than Next, there are the people who idolizing the turning of a calendar, notice problems in their lives days or we should constantly be looking to weeks before the New Year. They nobetter ourselves and focus on the intice these problems, yet wait until the dividual days in our lives; not waiting calendar turns to break their habits. for the next year to come.
WITHOUT WINTER FORMAL THERE IS NOT A LOT TO LOOK FORWARD TO A small thing like a dance could make a big difference
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he weather is an essential part of daily life whether we realize it or not. When you wake up you check the weather to see how you will be dressed that day, DANIELLE if you will be spendVARRASSO ing time inside or outside, and a lot of one's day can revolve around what it is like outside. This is an uncontrollable variable that we have to pay attention to every day. It would be one thing if it only affected materialistic things, like your clothes, or what car you're driving, but the real reason it is so important is because of the mental effects that come with weather change. Waking up in the morning and getting out to your car just to have to scrape off the windshield and turn on the defrost so you are not late to school could be the worst way to start the morning. It is the little
daily tasks, like walking in and out of distance in the cafeteria for lunch. buildings or waiting for your car to Winter formal is just like any of these warm up that can be made absolutely activities, and plus it is optional. Stumiserable by cold weather. dents who are worried about Covid It is hard not to let the cold weather can not go, and the school could also bring you down because you are not make masks required at the dance. able to spend as much time outside. Seniors especially would love to Something that can make it more have a winter formal because it is bearable is making the last time they get the most of what you a true school dance. can do inside, things After a lot of senior "After a lot of senior like sporting events, privileges have privileges have been been taken we just and holidays or a taken, we just want winter formal. want some of the fun Students look some of the fun events events with all the forward to winter grades together. with all the grades formal because it Mental health together." gives them someneeds to be priorthing to do in the itized more when winter months. When it starts to get it comes to the winter, students are cold there are not as many activities more prone to becoming depressed, through the school. Having a school lonely, and also lack motivation. dance in the middle of February gets Something that feels small like a everyone’s spirits up. winter formal dance can make all We were able to have homecoming, the difference to students because it full capacity football and basketgives an opportunity for fun. ball games, and we are all in close
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