A new year is a great chance to start fresh and orient yourself toward your goals. That’s why New Year’s resolutions are so exciting — they’re a way to plan out how you’ll be a new and improved person starting January 1st.
But, as many of us have found in our mid-January days, you don’t always get to every New Year’s resolution on the list. There’s guilt when we let our gym membership expire or when we go back on Instagram to scroll for another two hours. We mess up, we look at our nicely-written New Year’s note and think of how hopeful and positive we were at the end of last year. We don’t follow through and instead promise we’ll do it next year.
What if we took the pressure off New Year’s resolutions instead of taking them so seriously? Here are 25 hilarious New Year’s resolutions to brighten not only your day but also your entire next year:
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Zoë Kaplan is an English major at Wesleyan University in the class of 2020. She writes about women, theater, sports, and everything in between. Read more of Zoë’s work at www.zoëkaplan.com.
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