New Years Resolutions?

With the New Year already here, I just wondered, why do we make New Year Resolutions? The New Year comes with the passing of a day, 24 hours, but how is that any more special? Lets analyze.

When first looked at, the words "New Year" are always capitalized, signifying a proper noun. Any proper noun is important, and that's why we capitalize them. So when we think about this, the New Year really is something important. Although it comes within a day, it is the start of a new year, and could be considered a clean slate, or a blank, new page in a book. The beginning of the New Year is a perfect time to set goals for things you want to do that year. My family, being Christian and LDS, has a tradition at Christmas time. We get together as a family, and we write down something, and it is in a way a goal. This "thing" we write down is called our present to Jesus, and it goes under the Christmas Tree with all the other presents. It is a time to reflect about what you want to do in the upcoming year, and what goal you already are starting to want to set. It is a neat little tradition.

But this leads to the question why do we set goals? The weird thing about setting goals is we set them subconsciously all the time. When you want to get somewhere on time, its setting a goal. Whenever you sit down to practice something, it's setting a goal. At New Years, we set larger, more life changing goals. When we actually physically set these down, they are more likely to happen. Everyone is proud and happy of themselves when they actually reach their goal, and who doesn't want happiness?