NEW YEAR, NEW ME

THE START OF SOMETHING NEW

            Since childhood, or should I say since I started schooling, I have been asked to write about my New Year’s resolution. For school compliance, I would then start enumerating things that I would want to change about myself, most especially concerning my attitudes. But as I grew older, I honestly would admit that my New Year’s resolutions were only good for a few days, or weeks, perhaps. What then is the importance of having to list down things for change when I could not even fulfil even half of the list?

Now that I am sixteen, about to enter my college life, now that I  am older, I have grown more mature as with regards to my whole being as a person. I guess it is time to bid goodbye to my childish manners and see things realistically. I have to be honest, I did not make any list this New Year. I guess change has to come from within, not basing change to the list we make. I admit am not a perfect person, as anybody else is. But for now, I guess I have to exert more effort so that I would become a better person.

For now, instead of making list about my New Year’s resolution, I have made a list of what I would want to become someday. I have made a list of  how I can attain my goals in life. Young as I am, sweet sixteen as they say, I can say I have achieved so much than any other teenager has my age. So many opportunities have come my way, so much achievements have been made. But I do not want to stop there. It is not that I have never content myself with my achievements, but I would want some achievements of mine as my stepping-stones in achieving my goals in life.

This year, I really would say, “Hey, it’s New Year! You will see a new me!”. Still there were times when I get a little bit irritable at home or sometimes I go back to my childish ways at home, but perhaps, those manners are because of the pressures I get…rushing up projects and other school requirements. But things would again change when I started preparing myself for sleep. Although my mind and body was tired for the day’s activities, I would just smile and say to myself, “What a day! It’s another day that passed, and tomorrow would be new one. I would then rest for tonight in preparation for a new day tomorrow.”

Yes, I have become a new person. I have grown more mature. I have bidden goodbye to most of my childish manners, I have started seeing things positively, I have become a stronger person. Well I guess I needed those attitudes so that I can say that I am truly prepared for my college life. I wanted to become a pediatrician someday. If I continue the things that I have mentioned earlier, then I am confident that I will succeed someday.