“New Year, new Me”

Every time the ball drops and a new year begins, some people make it a point to make their new year’s resolution. The goals can range anywhere from taking care of themselves to taking care of others. When most people make these resolutions, they plan on keeping them throughout the whole year. However, they often find themselves letting the goals slip as the year progresses.

We spoke to Chad Hensley, English I teacher at South Doyle High School, about the New Year’s topic. When asked about his resolution from last year, he said, “I didn’t really have one.” He went on to say that he doesn’t really do very well with New Year’s resolutions, because they last all year and they are hard to keep up with. However, he did say that he gives things up for Lent and he does better with that. He said, “Telling God that I am going to give something up provides motivation to stick with it.”

We then moved on to the topic of this year’s resolution. He responded that he wants to exercise more.  He wanted to walk or hike so many miles a day, but now he just does six to eight miles on the weekend. “I gave up a couple bad things,” adds Hensley.  He plans to keep up his resolution throughout the whole year.  Hensley said “getting’ fat,” inspired him to exercise this year. “I went to Germany over the summer and ever sense I’ve been packing on the pounds,” said Hensley.  “20 pounds to be exact,” he added.

We then asked Junior Kenzie Long about her resolutions, and she had completely different answers. Last year, her resolution was to stop drinking soda. She said, “I kept up with it for the most part, and I only drink them every once in a while.” We asked her if this year’s resolution was influenced by last year’s, and her response was yes. “My resolution for this year is to lose weight.” Since she stopped drinking soda last year, she wants to go a little farther this year.

Emily Taylor, freshman, also has a New Year’s Resolution for 2014.  She wants to score well on her solo this season.  She has been working on her solo since November. Emily’s inspiration for her resolution is the fact that she gets the privilege to dance.  She also added, “Alex Warner is my inspiration and role model in life.”

New year’s resolutions can definitely be hard to keep up with .The people we asked either did not have one to keep up with, or they stuck with it until the end. When asked about their resolutions for this year, they had high hopes of keeping up with them.  Why make a resolution if you don’t have enough motivation to keep it?  I think that if you have the right motives you can accomplish anything.

Ashlee Holtzclaw & Alex Warner