making resolutions

This year I, contrary to my usual pattern, may actually make some New Year's resolutions. Usually, the process seems a little artificial to me. If you are going to resolve to do something, then why do it based on one day of the year?  Why not make a resolution at any time? New Year's eve and day have, for the most part, simply been another evening and day in the year, albeit with more drunk and/or hungover people in the world. 

Yet this year seems a little different. Not that I'm placing any more importance on the changing of a calendar year, but because deciding how and where I go next may be important. There have been a lot of changes in my life in the last calendar year, both professionally and personally, and I am in a good spot in life.  I also get the sense that things will continue to change for me, and that I am on the cusp of some amazing experiences. All in all, it is a great place to be. 

So, should I make some resolutions?  Perhaps.  Not the desperate, I-need-to-change-my-life resolutions, but the gentle, this-is-who-I-want-to-be resolutions. If I do, though, these resolutions may or may not occur by the time I'm writing 2010 on my checks.