Resolution Resolved
A new approach

Perhaps this year I'll keep to three
Resolutions
Ways to work on me.
.
I ALWAYS choose to reduce my weight
improve myself
So I'll pick that for the nth year straight.
.
Hmm- when you keep to just three
Resolutions
You find that prioritizing is key.
.
Maybe this year I'll into it back
myself
And find a new approach to attack.
.
Instead of listing how I'll do
Resolutions
I'll first determine my point of view.
.
Before I choose how I'll improve
myself
The things that rip me up I must remove.
.
So, then, it's clear that to succeed my other
Resolutions
Must be to shine a light and not to smother.
.
So next: to identify what causes me to trip
myself
Then unfasten, with compassion, myself from its grip.
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By the time I unravel those and make clear
Resolutions
Perhaps just that one is enough to which I'll persevere.
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This year: instead of setting a list at the beginning of the year, ways that I lack, lists of my-not-enough; I'm going to take the time to understand why I haven't done all of those things in life so far.
Change happens when the pain of not changing is bigger than the pain of the change. Why do I hold on to things that I don't believe I should?
I've started down the road of understanding the impact of generational and personal trauma. And this is what I am taking into 2024:
Trauma changes a person.
So does healing.
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Judey Kalchik
It's my time to find and use my voice.
Poetry, short stories, memories, and a lot of things I think and wish I'd known a long time ago.
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