By: Emma Sanchez
With the recent new year, people have spiced up their ways of living through New Year’s resolutions. The custom of making New Year’s resolutions has gone on for thousands of years allowing people to accomplish something new, set goals, and celebrate another year lived.
With 2020 being both chaotic and stressful, many have held an optimistic mindset towards 2021 and are hopeful to achieve more.
Setting aside resolutions allows people to reflect on important things from the past and focus on any issues one has. This year Xela Burke, ’23 wants to “save my money because I spend too much on useless stuff and if anything were to happen in the future I’d like to have that money available.”
This way of thinking will help build stronger habits for the future allowing her to be prepared for times to come.
Many make resolutions, but this doesn’t stop them from being a struggle. Jacob Perch, ’23 wants to stop procrastinating, but says that “the thing that is holding me back is my work ethic. I need to be more disciplined.”
With resolutions, come change. It’s important to hold an open mindset and adapt to ways to accomplish goals set.
Mr. Quezada, a math teacher, set goals such as to “finish his master’s degree” he is determined and “learning and being a better teacher than I was the day before” has great importance to him. Mr. Quezada has a strong passion for math and through this, he hopes to strengthen his style of teaching by the end of this year.
“I hope that as a society, we’re more caring for others, that we emerge from this COVID pandemic with greater resilience and empathy for others.”
Mr. Quezada
Though many enjoy New Year’s resolutions, others don’t. Mrs. Feehan, a Sophomore Honors English teacher here at Redwood says that “they are so binding and concrete.” She’d rather “set goals for myself and areas of my life that I would like to see myself improve over the course of the year.”
Instead of treating the marathon like a sprint, Mrs. Feehan wants to progressively work on important life aspects rather than feeling bad if she doesn’t strictly complete one.
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