January 4, 2026
Will It Be A “New” Year?
Does simply making the number on the end of the numbers, 2025, make it a “New” Year? Yes, we will add another year to our age, yes, we have to change the date on all our dates where signatures are required, yes, we must take down that calendar and put up a new one that has replace 2025 with 2026. But, think about it and honestly answer the question being asked: is this really a “New” year?
I’ll bet the majority of you still live in the same place you did at midnight on December 31, 2025, still have the same job, still drive the same route to wrok each day, look forward to your favorite food being placed in front of you or ordered from the favorite kitchen, and so on and so on. Now what is your answer?
I know, a lot of you have made what are called New Year’s Resolutions, which will dractically change your life. Today is the 4th of January and a bunch of you have already busted that bubble. Give it a few more days and another huge bunch will be holding their deflated ballon.
I read an article about a person who stopped making those resolutions each January 1 when it rolled around, just like clockwork. She has a medical problem that has caused her all kinds of trouble all her life, even causing her to be made fun of during her early school years. Kids can be cruel as I am sure we all know having experienced it at one time or another. The allegience towards “friends’, “systems”, etc., changes periodically just like the dirt we wash off one day, only to get a new barch to wash off the next.
Anyway, she never really made resolutions because her life was not set up to make long term commitments. She literally never knew when she would be back in the hospital bed of on the ski slope so she took her days one day at a time. She started waking up each day and making a plan or goal for that day. I don’t remember what she called it but it replaced what everyone else would be calling those New Year’s Resolutions, except she made them daily.
The lady writes on Substack. I read a couple of articles and she has her own way with words that will keep you reading to the end. I do not remember her name but will probably get another free diatribe to try and get me to subscribe. Of course, if I subscribed to all the people who want me to subscribe, I would be spending my entire Social Security check on Substack.
I haven’t made any New Year’s Resolutions but I have decided I want to read the Bible again this year and write a little more faithfully on The Grist, contiue my adventure with Divi, and get my Business Directory finished. I guess not having a time table is an issue as I could do all this on the 30th of Decenber in order to reach my goal. I shoiuld have a busy year as I also want to get my podcast going concerning interviewing the runners at the back of the pack at ultra raxes up on my website, “faithruners-runyourownrace.com”, keep filling up my map at: citystrides.com/users/39025; and run/walk/crawl to the finish line at a 100 mile race, along with a group that are too numerous to mention.
Everyone reading this knows I have no way of finishing any of this if I do not get organized. The statement, “Too many cooks spoin the broth”, works here as, ‘too many goals keep Roy from finsihing any of them”.
Here is what started me asking the question about the new year. How many of those goals did I have in 2025? ALL OF THEM! So this is not really a New Year, just an extension of the old one that must become organized so the march to completeness can be accomplished.