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What we’ve been talking about There’s one particular point in each year when we start thinking about how generally awful we are and what on earth we can do to change. Curiously, these so-called ‘resolutions’ always seem to come around the New Year mark. Maybe there’s a clue in the title. Below are some offerings which may or may not bite the dust come 4 Jan
To stop
defending comic books and accept that they are art
and someone
doesn’t get that. It’s their loss.
I shall tirelessly campaign for the dissolution of Post-it notes. They give me the
creeps.
I plan to watch my mouth: more listening,
less reaction. I’m a passionate lassie
but I know I can be a
mouthpiece.
Try and stress
less about everything and chill out
more.
Every year, it’s ‘tighten shit up’ in my life, in my
work, in my body, in my mind, in my health. Everything is still slightly
flabby.
My vow is to simply ignore any news story which
has ‘Trump’ in the headline.
To go somewhere new every month. Even if it was at the weekend just getting to another
part of the city that I hadn’t
been to before. It’s just nice to do something
different.
I always make it my resolution to finally learn how to drive. It’s been ten years since my first lesson and I’m still not
there yet.
I will bear in mind at all times that John
Milton’s great tribute to debate, ‘I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that
immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat’, does not apply to comment sections.
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‘Learn how to do basic maths, you moron’. It’s time.
Every year, I resolve to spend less time reading comics and more time reading big books of philosophy. However,
Grant Morrison is a more interesting postmodern thinker than Foucault, so that lasts about six hours before I get The Invisibles
off the shelf and the History of Sexuality goes
back under the bed.
Join some sort of class and actually stick to it! I’ve left a trail of forgotten hobbies behind me from pole dancing to mindfulness. I guess I have commitment
issues.
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