Best of 2015: A New Resolution: To Create Healing

On the last day of 2015 we thought it made sense to rerun a piece written by Disruptive Woman Janice Lynch Schuster where she discussed her resolution for the year. What is your resolution for 2016? For all my years on the planet, 52, there are still times when experience is no teacher—or when futility seems to be my master. Nowhere is this more true than in my annual list of New Year’s resolutions. (It is a relief to know that I am not alone in this one.) Many of us share the idea that with an annual tick-tock-bank, we can fashion ourselves anew by resolving to achieve certain goals. In some ways, my approach to making resolutions echoes the Lenten period of my Catholic girlhood: in those days, I could give up something for 40 days, and in doing so, would become closer to my faith.  Perhaps that early experience is still the force that leads me to making resolutions that are at once modest and narcissistic. My resolutions tend to contain some combination of activities that, if only I could achieve them, would lead to meaningful change. Each year, I vow to make this the year when I will simultaneously change my appearance, my weight, my spirit, and my relationships. The theme to these has always been that if I could only be prettier/thinner/holier/kinder, I would better myself—and so improve the aspects of my self that interact with the rest of my life and so, with the larger world. For years now, for as long as I can remember, my resolve fails. Depending on how unatta...
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