THIS YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

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‘What is wrong with me?’ I asked Ade, Diana and Tula. ‘Even if it’s prayers or through witchcrafcy, guys, I’m all for this.’ I told them ‘Hehehe’….Ade burst into a laughter when I was just at the verge of eulogizing before them. It was the kind of lamentation that I was making to my friends and everyone that always has the same problem like mine. We are dearly yearning for that special hospital that can inject you with anti procrastination medicines.

Anyway, for the last two years, I haven’t been that energetic young man who has been doing things the first time they comes up on his mind. I’m not me; I’m not the same Zack you used to know. I’m not the same Zack that could read a 500 plus pages of a book within three days and feel like wants to read more. I’m not the same me that never read a book half and then opt for another one. I’m the new me that can read one article per day and then feel okay.

‘Maybe you should make us understand’, Tula said in her usual mocking manner. She is always the best and the person of the day when we meet. ‘Is it a girl or something that you can’t tell us?’ Here we go again: from the main things that dwindle my creativity to girls that I have been forgotten to talk about for a very long time. It is about this war between procrastination and I – my own self that has become the enemy of progress of his own. ‘I‘m afraid to set my New Year’s resolutions; because, I might fail to achieve them this year’, I told them. It must have been super strange to Diana who is meeting me for the first time. It happens. It just happens to some people. Her facial expression communicated to me so.

‘What’s bothering you, Zack?’ Ade asked. ‘This is what I’m saying.’ I leaned toward to tell them – ‘I don’t do what I say these days and I’m becoming too forgetful.’ I told them. ‘Maybe you have a lot on your mind’, said Diana who has said almost nothing since Tula joined us on the table. ‘Things like what?’ I asked her before the words could land from his lips. ‘I don’t know. Maybe you have a lot that you are thinking about, you never know.’ She said. ‘And those many things are the ones that I really want to know. Hey, a friend told me last year that when you find yourself in such situations, you pray very hard so that God grand you one. When you become too forgetful, you’re either becoming genius or you’re naturally going to suffer from amnesia if it persists for long. “Isaac Newtown was one hell of a forgetful guys ever lived. He once boiled his wristwatch instead of an egg that was on the same table”. I don’t know what you will recommend me guys to take before that jackpot of luck fall on me.’ I told them. ‘Haha!’ They burst to laugh again.

It is hard to say; especially on a public domain, that, procrastination is the only thing that is pulling down your progress yet it is just a one-day activity. You put yourself under a special treatment to make you come out of that cocoon where you have been hiding and refusing to face the world. ‘Look,’ I told Tula, ‘I must have read 35 books last year, but remember, it’s the same last year I crafted in my diary that I was going to write five movies and three plays and read fifty books.’ I told her. ‘Did you just say thirty-five books and you’re here complaining? Look’, she showed me her phone, ‘I haven’t even finished reading this article, yet I opened it in the morning; thinking I will read it when I find appropriate time to do it. Imagine since morning, it has remains like a plague.’ She said. ‘Wow! That’s too much now.’ Ade flavored. That’s true – especially if you have never been in that position where people like Tula and Zack submit in their assignments late because deadlines are drawing near. ‘I have read thirty-five books though, but other areas like plays where I wrote none of it and one movie throughout the year is why I’m still worried a lot now. They’re my own yearly resolutions yes; even if I breaks the code or not, no one will ever take me to jail or suspend me from work; but, again, why do we (other people and I) need to set these goals on things that they cannot achieve? Apart from procrastinating, I understand that there’re people outside there who cannot even find time to read, play soccer or even write or do anything for leisure but still have the guts to set abnormal things beyond their reach. You just need to set your goals for the year within your limit: be it buying a car, building a new house or getting married in May, you need to set your resolutions within your capacity. For team *procrastinators, Tula is having our notes that she refused to give to me – that I might not find time to read them because I am a bachelor dating Miss Procrastination. Hopefully, before this week ends, she will send me the notes to read and take me through in order to avoid treating Miss Procrastination special. Either way, I’m going for simple things like my sports analysis on the radio, writing one movie this year, make money more if there is a chance to do so, stay out of youthful dramas and then go for those little things that make me happy. I am in for this. I am down to earth for this.

Happy New Year!