2010 Here I Come.

Though I have plenty of standard "get good grades", "spend more time with friends" goals for the new year, I plan to concentrate more on the fundamental, less measurable resolutions I hope to achieve. Things that I won't be able to complete in a week, and things that other people may not even notice. Things that that make me the person I want to be, and fulfill the life I hope to lead.

I hope to live deliberately. I hope to live with the utmost consciousness of existence. I don't just want to be--I want to live.

I find that it is often (especially in our busy over-achieving lives) that we become lost in the tide of schoolwork, going from day to day and from week to week under the umbrella of lengthy to-do lists. The weeks become months, the months years, and before we know it... We're doing it again in a different place.

I don't want to live this way.

I don't want to be a machine, to be scripted by the confines of my To-Do-Lists.

I want to live.

Any time we reach a milestone, a new school year, the end of a semester, etc-- I always hear the same sentiments, "Gosh, that went by fast!" Well I don't want it to go by fast. These may very well be some of the best years of our lives, and I can think of no greater shame than for them to be squandered in an obscure tide pool of stress and lack of meaning.

I want to reflect, I want to dance, I want to laugh, I want to cry, I want to be challenged, I want to run, I want to sing, I want to act foolishly, I want to win, I want to lose, I want to love.

In 2010...

I want to live.