Honesty and Authenticity. Resolutions.
Many years I post a resolution thread, particularly with those for other people, that being a type of frankly snarky satire. I sometimes note some for myself as well.
This year I haven't posted anything.
The grimness of 2023 has a lot to do with that. On a professional note, and by all externals, I had a fairly good year last year. Economically, it went well, in spite of being knocked out for surgery. But surgery and health wise it was really tough. So I haven't been in the mood for that.
I am one of those people who do resolutions, and looking back on them, I'm also one of those people who typically fail at them. That's not a reason to try, however. And I've had enough in the way of shocks and major setbacks over the year not to look at life in 2023 as sort of ending me to the penalty box. So here's at it.
Rather than set resolutions, and I know generally what mine would be anyhow, I'm instead going to note a dedication, which is a form of resolution. And that would be Honesty and Authenticity. I'm tired of the dishonest and unauthentic.
I believe, as part of this overall, that dishonest and unauthentic behavior and actions are responsible for almost all of the problems our society faces right now, and I need to reflect that myself. Casting a wide net, almost all of our personal problems, and our national, and international ones, are due to dishonesty and inauthenticity.
Not that the honest and authentic win any prizes of any kind with people. People like to be told lies that they agree with to support their own dishonest beliefs, wants and behaviors. And people like fake too.
But deep down, that doesn't work.
It's not as if I've been living a dishonest and inauthentic life. But most of us make a lot of mental compromises to get along in daily life this way. It's really not good for anything.
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