What are your New Year Resolutions?

This is such a terrible ritual, this making of promises to yourself that you may never keep! In fact, so often we make them not even knowing how or when or where to start, but I guess while having good intentions isn’t enough, it’s better than having bad intentions!
Here is my list of (im)possible dreams for 2018, increasingly philosophical as I get older but I hope some are achievable. Apologies for throwing in the personal ones but I am only human!
There, that wasn’t too bad, was it? I never mentioned traffic, flooding, corruption, inefficiency, poor regulations, injustice, intolerance or discrimination once. No point really since ending all of those will require a lot of other people’s New Year Resolutions to be made - and kept! (Impossible Dream III)
Have a great year and remember: failing to plan is planning to fail, so make your 2018 plans now! (And keep them).
Have a great year and remember: failing to plan is planning to fail, so make your 2018 plans now!
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