The Weight of a New Year

Emily Apuzzo Hopkins | December 27th, 2024

Do we put too much pressure on the new year to deliver a better version of ourselves?

Yes - 100%. Every. Damn. Year.

In recent years, this week between Christmas and New Year’s has always left me with this feeling of hope for what the new year can hold. While I still consider myself an optimist, I can’t help but wonder if that eternal sunshine is causing me to place pressure upon my shoulders that I cannot possibly hold for an entire calendar year.

My resolutions have taken a shift - focusing less on a result and more on a process with intention. And hopefully, avoiding the second Friday in January which I have recently learned has a name — “Quitter’s Day”. How depressing is that?

So as I embark on another non-resolution resolution, I choose to detach it from the weight this word often carries and just do the best that I can.

Cheers.