Resolutions

I have never given much thought to the spur of the moment resolutions I create at 11:59 pm, December 31. They usually do not amount to much. Last year I "kept it simple" and resolved to run a marathon (I hate running) and to learn how to play the guitar (but I did not want to pay for music classes). During this past summer, however, I made a to do list of sorts that I have been keeping up with. It started with me imaging my ideal sense of self (you can take the woman out of sociology, but you can never take the sociology out of the woman), and then I identified the qualities that Anees possessed that this Anees does not.

After returning to my white board off and on throughout the days, I came up with a pretty lengthy list. When I felt as if everything had been written down, I took a step back and examined who I was and who I wanted to be. What I would like to see in myself are the qualities that I treasure in my friends and family.

I don't have the list with me now, but here are some of the things I have resolved to do (and can remember).

I want to be:
          a dancer
                              kinder
                                                   fearless
                                                                       more trusting

                                                                                           and braver.