I'm Still Learning

The new year is always a time of reflection and of course resolution.

So here's what I have.

What I learned in 2012 about the world, in no particular order:

1. When people say, "We're all adults here," they really mean "Let's pretend we don't know better.

2. Good things usually creep up on you in the same way they usually fizzle away. Nothing worthwhile comes and goes quickly or easily.

3. All humans are cookie cutters. We bake at different temperatures, in different ovens, but we end up in generally the same shape.

What I learned in 2012 about myself, in no particular order:

1. I want to go everywhere, see everyone, meet everyone. As my friend once said, I am in love with places I've never been and people I've never met.

2. If I don't write everyday I start to lose my mind. It makes me think about things and about people and about what I mean to the world. And what I should mean to the world into the future.

3. I am present. I am not past and I am not future. I am here. I am now.

What I hope to learn about the world and myself in 2013, in no particular order:

1. What the world means to me. Not what the world is, but what it is in conjunction with myself. How it effects me, and more importantly, how I effect it.

2. How to apply skills to the world. How to capitalize on my intelligence and my natural ambition.

3. How to live with myself and with other people. How to be compatible with all sorts of people.

And of course, the relatively cliche resolutions:

1. Go to yoga more often. I mean really, like once a week at least.

2. Watch less TV. Get off your lazy ass.

3. Socialize more. Make friends. Party. Talk to people.

4. Eat better? I mean, I guess. Less sweets at the very least.

5. Be more sexy. Seriously, I can do it.

6. Read more books. I'm a nerd, that's what we do.

7. Get. Off. Social. Media. Facebook, twitter, the whole lot.

8. Blog more. I know that is pretty vague, and I always say that, but I'm working on it.

9. Write more. See above.

10. Find a man in Seattle. I know it's a shallow resolution, but hey, it's a desire.

11. Do something everyday that would make a good story.

12. Floss more.....

13. Try not to be so emotionally attached to fictional characters. Or so emotionally attached to most things, for that matter.

There. Thirteen resolutions for 2013.

Boom.

2013 should be great.