A Pen and a Paper

At the beginning of this year I brought a pen and a paper and wrote a wish list (commonly known as New Year resolution). It’s eight months past that moment and I brought the very same pen and paper to tick a mark in front of my fulfilled wishes and not a single one has been achieved yet.

I have never been put in a similar situation before where I feel I have catastrophically underachieved. I thought of a reason, is it me? Is it my growing responsibilities? Is it my luck?

Too many questions and very few answers, it started to bug me and I began to panic.

I then realized that panicking was not the solution , I stepped back and looked at the bigger picture, it’s still 4 months until the end of this year, there is some time left. There is some hope, but being hopeful is not enough. I’m glad I reminded myself of what I want. I’m glad I wrote down what It was i was aiming to achieve,  because the possibility of achieving the wishes you write is way higher than achieving the wishes you only think of.

I hope at the end of this year I bring the same pen and paper and  tick a mark in front of all the items on my wish list, but before I put them back in my drawer I found I can tick off the first item “Be a wiser person.”