new year resolution has always been "the thing" for some time now. so much so that it has become some sort of a tautology to be asked to list your resolutions come new year. but how often have resolutions been real visions than mere decorative words?
in a society of today where thinking out-of-the-box is the 'in' word, "out-of-the-box" has really become "in-the-box". when paradoxes like burning ice, frozen fire, selfless egocentric and the likes have grown so common, such "creativity" has become mere conformity and the kind of product that any tim, duck and horry can churn out.
when the "foreparents" (my efforts at verbal hygiene again) of deviance first stood out, they were hailed as heroes. the creative ones. the cool ones. but the listing of new year resolutions has become un-cool and obiang before i knew it. being quite a blogder, i browsed quite a few blogs of people i know and unsurprisingly, the listing of not listing has become the 'in' thing. it has become more common now for people to recognise that resolutions have been mere displays of conformity to the western ideals that we have been over-exposed in the media. people now explicitly state that they no longer want to list resolutions because resolutions never work. so common has it become, it is uncreative. it is "in-the-box".
in the media, however, resolutions is still the kind of thing that people talk about as the clock strikes 12. deviance from the conventions of media, it appears, has become the norm. it has become a conformity to the norm of being deviant. this is uncreative.
for 2008, i am not going to list my resolutions because resolutions never work. i'm a walking paradox. double the irony.