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Is New Year Resolution Necessary, How Many Times Have we Messed up our New Year Resolutions?👋 Bright Hope Ahead New Year resolution is as old as the year itself, yet many of us never understood it more than making a mental or written list of the things that we would want to accomplish or do away with, come the New year. I made many resolutions that I hardly remembered after the first week of the New Year; I never practiced them. Should I say that I am older; I have started making a more accomplishable New Year resolution or have I entirely stopped making New Year resolutions? Far from it, age has nothing to do with it and I have not stopped making New Year resolutions, I cannot say that I am completely accomplishing all I resolved to do. If I were wise or have attained that wisdom, I would have accomplished everything that I wrote down last year. In fact I did not even touch anything that I wrote down, rather I found myself pursuing different mirages that were not catchable!

Merry Christmas Christmas celebration has just ended although in some peoples’ houses and hearts, the celebration lives on, until they usher in the New Year. Yeah, I feel that way although I do have intermittent "Are you really ready to transition?" conflict moments. Indeed, am I really ready for 2017? We are happy that we survived the confusion and commotions of this year’s abrasive politics, religious intolerance, wars and "refugeeism", and the ravaging worldwide organized "Isism" with nomadic suicide bombing, ‘lone-range’ mass shooting and natural disasters, mud-sliding, avalanche, earthquake, rain and flood storms as well as plunging plane crashes. All these, we have yet to mention the deadliest of them all, car crashes, sporadic life-taken economic hardships, homicide, traffic violations, police shootings and uncomfortable neighborhood policing, ganging and selective jailing. How many more unnecessary breeches of lives should I mention? May