new year’s resolutions

My Top Five New Year’s Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions

The older I get the more realistic and sober I become, as a consequence this year’s Top Ten list will more than ever reflect my practical side.

To being with, ten life-changing resolutions are too many, this year I have shortened my list to my Top Five New Year’s Resolutions:

DOWNSIZE

Less is more. A life burdened with too my possessions, too many relationships, and too many obligations is impractical, unsustainable and untenable in the post-pandemic world.

LOOK FOR AT LEAST ONE VIRTUE TO APPRECIATE IN EVERYBODY

I’m a misanthrope and complaining about other people comes naturally to me, but next year I will make a concerted effort to find one good thing about even the rottenest person.

SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER

In the era of Trump incivility, vindictiveness, racism, misogyny, homophobia and all sorts of evil is rampant. I am determined to speak truth to power via my humble blog.

BE MORE CONCERED ABOUT MY HEALTH

As I grow older, and my body falls apart the more health conscious I am. We only get one body, be good to your body, mind and soul. No need to elaborate, ya’ll know what I’m talking about.

READ MORE BOOKS

As a writer it’s incumbent upon me to encourage everyone to read more books. Less screen time, more time reading books and newspaper articles.

My New Year’s Resolution: Stop Writing About Trump After Joe Biden is Inaugurated

The slogan of my blog is “your home on the internet for anti-Trump essays”, and hundreds of my essays exposing the corruption, racism, incompetence and abuse of power of the president are posted on my site.

There is no politician less worthy of coverage than Donald Trump: every word that emanates from his sphincter-shaped mouth is sheer nonsense and every tweet that he posts is toxic.

The stable genius is inherently an inconsequential idiot and if he was the president of a local chapter of the KKK instead of the President of the United States nobody would care what he has to say about anything.

But by virtue of the fact that he’s the President of the United States and the Leader of the Free World, and his words and actions have consequences that effect the lives of millions in America and around the world, it’s imperative that journalists and bloggers cover the insignificant and inadequate little man.

I will continue to chronicle the chaos of the Trump administration until January 20, 2021, because until noon on that monumental day Trump still has the power to command the armed forces, grant pardons and he will still wield all the tremendous powers of the presidency.

But once Joe Biden has been inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States, my New Year’s resolution will be to ignore the vain babblings of the little pipsqueak.

Only his suicide, assassination or death from natural causes will compel me to write a final article about him.

Robert Paul Reyes’ New Year’s Resolutions

Every year like clockwork at this time of the year I post my Top Ten New Year`s Resolutions. But I`ve never published an update on how many of the resolutions I managed to keep.

My yearly Top Ten lists are a testament to my abject failure to keep my commitments, it`s always a case of the “spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Maybe I should channel a beauty pageant contestant and simply declare that my only resolution is to strive for world peace. But my regular readers know that I`m a cynical old bastard, and I would lose what little credibility I have.

A more rational course is simply to end the practice of posting my Top Ten New Year`s Resolutions. I really don`t need another reminder that I`m a weak human being whose dreams and aspirations are bigger than my ability to make them come to fruition.

I could post a list of the Top Ten Accomplishments of 2017:

I managed not to accumulate any debt this year, as the year comes to a close my only bills are my monthly utility bills.

I haven`t made any enemies this year (that I`m aware of). I may have legions of online enemies who hate me because of my sometimes controversial essays, but in real life I haven`t pissed somebody off to the extent that they consider me an enemy.

Make that my Top Two Accomplishments of 2017.

I wish everyone a Happy New Year. If you don`t have much to celebrate this year, do like everyone else, and manufacture some faux joy by getting sloppy drunk.

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