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Musings for Friday - New Year Resolutions. Yea? Or Nay? Poll added. [1]
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Date: 2025-01-03
Are you a person who goes through the ritual of making New Year’s Resolutions? If you are, do you follow through? Every year? Every resolution?
I’m not. Maybe it’s my ADHD brain. I haven’t taken a survey of people with ADHD to see if that’s the case, but it certainly hasn’t been my experience. Maybe there are other people who have ADHD who can follow through with resolutions.
How about those of you who don’t do resolutions who don’t have ADHD? Why don’t you do resolutions? Are they silly? Do you think they’re superstitious? A waste of brain power?
The History of New Year’s Resolutions The ancient Babylonians are said to have been the first people to make New Year’s resolutions, some 4,000 years ago. They were also the first to hold recorded celebrations in honor of the new year—though for them the year began not in January but in mid-March, when the crops were planted. During a massive 12-day religious festival known as Akitu, the Babylonians crowned a new king or reaffirmed their loyalty to the reigning king. They also made promises to the gods to pay their debts and return any objects they had borrowed. These promises could be considered the forerunners of our New Year’s resolutions. If the Babylonians kept to their word, their (pagan) gods would bestow favor on them for the coming year. If not, they would fall out of the gods’ favor—a place no one wanted to be.
So! Which is it? Yea? Or Nay?
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