独一无二, 无尽的爱

No, I am not posting my new year resolutions. I have got two of them, easy to figure out what they are.

What I was wondering is, should a new year resolution be something concrete, or can it be more like new year wishes/blessings? I was chatting to a Chinese friend earlier, and she said her new year resolutions were 1.Her parents were healthy, 2. Her friends were healthy, and 3.Her wishes come true. I argued that new year resolutions should be some concrete goals instead of intangible wishes, for example to lose 10kgs, quit smoking, learn a new language, go to Tibet, get married…. Ok, there is the less tangible, very popular (and often failed) ‘get fit’ resolution. But in the mind of the person expressing it, there’s a fit, muscular guy that they are aiming to resemble.

Anyway, what surprised me a little was when she said that her foreign friends said that new year resolutions could be to be healthy… I was wondering if they were unwilling to share their new year wishes (if they had any) and just said health to get off the hook. Or maybe they are easily sick people who want to be more healthy this year. But then she said she heard the anchorman on CRI programme (Easy Cafe) say that was his new year resolution. I’m really puzzled about that one. Was there something lost on the translation? (健康 in Chinese can mean both healthy and be fit) Do I have a bad understanding of what is a new year resolution?

I googled ‘new year resolution’ and came up with wikipedia’s definition as “A New Year’s resolution is a commitment that an individual makes to a project or a habit, often a lifestyle change that is generally interpreted as advantageous.” So ‘health’ in itself is NOT a resolution. Ta!

Picture taken from myGoals.com