New Year's Resolutions Analysis

In English, we were giving the assignment to record our 2018 New Year’s Resolutions. In receiving the assignment, it peak my curiosity on the coming about of these goals. Even though we think about New Year’s Resolutions being a current object of our modern society, the origin of these resolutions can be dated back to the time Babylonians. Although it started as a tradition as a way for the Babylonians to pay off their debts and return borrowed objects to the God’s, each goal has its own meaning to each individual, thus changing along with the times and morphing into what we are familiar with today. Eventually, this tradition made its way to America, and became popular after The Great Depression, and still continuing to be celebrated each coming
Even though reading meant something personal to me, I feel like I rarely do it anymore. When I was younger, I developed a passion for reading, but by the time I was in 8th grade to starting freshman year, I found that passion had dwindled because of the lack of time I had, thus creating this resolution. In my goal to read more often, I plan to make time for it. Instead of getting on my phone, I’m going to choose to read. Although this will help, i took an extra step and downloaded an app where I can set due dates, and it tells me how countless pages I need to read a day in order to finish the book by the date I set. This is a resolution I’m excited for because I hope to rekindle that passion that once was so dear to
This freshman year, I have chosen all honors, creating a workload that is unyielding to manage around my schedule. Between dance and homework, I rarely have free time to do as I please. Even though this has been difficult to balance, I have found what I can and can’t handle, and taking an honors math class is definitely one of the commodities I can’t handle, in part of the stress it puts on me. I tend to be a slower learner, and in math it feels as though we are going as fast as a rocket on its way to space. However, I do tend to accomplish this goal, for this is one of my biggest goals. One of my biggest flaws is procrastination. For example, instead of doing homework, I choose to watch YouTube, or choose my phone over more important items, when I could have just gotten my assignment over with. Next school year, I also plan on dropping my honors math, because I believe going slower will be easier for me to actually grasp the