New Year's Resolutions

In the world of self improvement, the New Year's Resolution is comparable to the mentally short changed, likely inbred cousin that is tolerated by his outside family due to the fact that the poor kid's incompetence is completely out of his control; sure, people can say it's the thought that counts, but at the end of the day, New Year's Resolutions are the most ineffective and laughable means in which people try to improve themselves. It is so much of a failure as a concept that the common approach to these resolutions isn't to uphold them indefinitely for the betterment of one's self, but rather to try to endure living with a self-set burden until it becomes unbearable to live in such agony, at which point the person with the resolution simply dumps the premise entirely and resumes the happy life they lived before the New Year. This concept of inevitable failure is a waste of time to many, and that is why I haven't bothered with New Year's Resolutions for years, instead preferring to justify my faults by blaming others. This technique of handing off accountability for the sake of dodging difficult commitment is on the rise, and I'm glad to see it be so accepted in modern day society. Whether it be people blaming the successful few in this world for keeping others down or getting mad at their ancestors and the crappy genetics they've inherited, we as a people can take comfort in knowing that blaming each other for all the problems we face is a lot easier than trying(and failing) to actually fix any of the things that makes us the horrible people everyone knows we are. So ditch your empty promises and hope for a better life, and join the world in embracing our spectacularly mediocre talents as well as our astoundingly off-putting faults, because it is amazing how much easier it is to sit around complaining about the things you hate about yourself rather than trying to fix the same damn thing year after year.