My Resolve
Robert Joy
For the Year 2008
I resolve again this New Year, to resolve like I’ve never resolved before.
I resolve to be resolute, focused and serious. Not to just make sounds and stir around and make the wind. I will make the soup with beef and potatoes instead of rocks and promises and wishes and handouts. To do more and speak less.
I resolve to stop talking a lot. It will be the hardest thing I’v ever done. I resolve to replace all my chatter with listening, and reading and writing letters and watching.
I resolve to keep the crazy tube turned off. The television is a wonderful device, but it should be taken in smaller portions like in a diet. I will read, write and paint in the basement and forego the lazy watching flickering nothing designed to waste my time and rob my life of  substance and cause me a lot of depression.
I resolve to use my time like a man possessed and not just put time in like a man behind bars in a prison. I will not waste away or wait to be released.
I resolve to always feel free, be free. I will pretend there is no fence and I will just walk around it or leap over it when I please.
I resolve to lose the ten pounds and go to one hundred eighty pounds where I will be content and not try for more.
I resolve to not be so depressed about the condition of life and world and accept the fact that I cannot stop the nut-cases determined to convert the world to their way of thinking by fear.Â
I resolve not to rant and whine, (this will be hard). I will convert all that wasted energy into art.
I resolve to walk somewhere everyday.
…and most of all, I resolve to tell someone, somewhere, everyday that I love them.
