Resolutions

A new year is a beautiful thing, like a new friend with a new face. I am not sure if it is really good to be alive because I am getting older and my face looks worse than it did last year and many of the things I tried to accomplish this year turned out not to work. I also drink too much and I destroyed a perfectly good relationship because I don’t like being criticized. But so many people tell me that it is good to be alive and they have convinced me that I should resolve to think less about myself. You should think more about the world and less about yourself, they say. It is nice to have friends who are happy to be alive, who tell you that you should be happy because there is more to the world than just your own old face and your own crippling shame from whence you know not. I am happy to have old friends, but I resolve also to have new thoughts which will be like new friends with new faces.