New year's resolutions. Let me just say, I don't like them. They tend to bring about disappointment when December 31st rolls around again, and we think about how we failed to work out every day or we didn't land our dream job this year. So this is the first year in many years that I'm even setting a goal for myself that begins on the 1st of January.
This year, after some amount of prayer and deliberation, my husband and I have decided to go 365 days without watching TV. I have no judgement for those who watch TV and movies; I greatly enjoy both, and I'm somewhat uncomfortable when I think about all the episodes of Chuck that I didn't finish before midnight last night. This is, however, precisely the reason we are not watching anything for the next year. We want to know what we might do or accomplish if we started using our free time to do other things.
There are many things I want to to, but somehow when I can sit down and check out from life by watching someone else's or a character live a life I'll never live, I seem to forget about my own and subsequently stop living it.
So with my 365 days of no TV there are many things that I hope to do, but instead of listing them, and thereby documenting resolutions that have the opportunity to become disappointments, I'm just going to blog every day about what I found to do with my time the day before.
Some days may be more dull than others, but that's life right? I don't know if there are those out there who will be interested in reading this, or maybe be inspired by it in some way, but I know the more who are, the more I will be inspired to continue.
Happy new year!
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