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My 2021 UnResolutions

A poem I wrote for a poetry circle in December 2020.

By Breyanna WilsonPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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My 2021 UnResolutions
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Clean your house

Organize all the cabinets

Drop 10 pounds this year.

Drop 20 pounds this year.

All this busyness dresses itself up

as the go-to operandum for human improvement

at the start of each year

But one by one,

as it goes

each goal slowly slips away

the workout equipment gathering dust

the tower of books left unread

all the new hobbies you said you’d get to

burying itself deep in procrastination and unimportance.

as it happened the year before that, and the year before that.

Crowding your mind with unfinishedness.

What if we tried a different approach this time?

Shift the paradigm a bit?

Instead of all these shiny goals,

which sound so nice

but feel so wrong when

they remain incomplete

we give ourselves this year

to simply breathe and be?

Rather than a goal,

how about we let this new year be an experience?

A resolution quickly strips the present moment

of any significance

and leaves us scrambling, grasping,

yearning for the future

while the present fades into obscurity

Let us greet each moment-to-moment

as a simple truth:

that who we are

right now

is to be celebrated

and any endgame we have

will meet us as we live.

Clear your mind.

Shift your thinking.

Drop all the heaviness

that living in the future carries

and settle into simple consciousness.

inspirational
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Breyanna Wilson

Have you ever felt that you had to figure out life yourself? Well I'm here to tell you that we're meant to traverse life together. Find my thoughts, tarot tips and more here. If you want more from me, check out www.breyannawilson.com.

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