New year’s resolutions

After a year of stress and fatigue, I made up my mind to be positive and focused in 2012. My new year’s resolution: use my talent and energy wisely.

While waiting for 2012 to arrive, I asked my now 13-year-old son about his new year’s resolution. After much delibration, he said that he would help me clean up our dinner table everyday after dinner.

At first I was a bit disappointed: cleaning up the table? There is nothing challenging about it. I had expected something more ambitious, and perhaps more intellectual, like reading a book. But then I realized what a great commitment it means: it is easy to help once in a while, but to do it every single day would require a great amount of discipline. I hope we both stick to our new year’s resolutions.