As the clock strikes 12, and fireworks go off, the new year starts and people start to feel the need to reinvent themselves. New Year’s Resolutions are one way to do so. Making goals, creating vision boards, and pushing for change for the new year have always had students buzzing with excitement. Setting resolutions is no new feat, but if their success is another story. As we have gotten older, are resolutions still being made? Is there a new way the Dubs plan to conquer the New Year?
Junior Evani Malhotra doesn’t make new years resolutions anymore like she used to. Malhotra used to write them down, posting them on a wall in her room and constantly looking at them. Now she just knows what she wants to achieve and keeps it in her head. Writing it down to her reverses the manifestation of her resolutions. However, if they are in her head she can change them and not stick to specific ones she made. She does not allow her resolutions to be set in stone and changes them to match the changes in her life. Her excitement for 2025 and what’s to come is evident. “I can’t wait for what this year brings me, because this year I’m not confining myself to specific resolutions,” she said.
For others, New Year’s resolutions were never something they did, they planned their desired goals through pictures. Ever since freshman year, junior Destiny Wimbish has set goals through making Pinterest boards. Wimbish’s collections of boards over the years have been collected in her account. On New Year’s Day, she goes through the past pictures she wanted her life to embody through the year and then makes her new one. As we approach three weeks into the year, she has looked back at her board and added new pictures. “I’ve always loved seeing what I wanted my life to look like because I’m more of a visual person,” she said. “I’d always recommend my way of resolutions because you can add pictures throughout the year especially if your goals change as your mind changes.”
Junior, Elisabeth Gosha believes that Resolutions are needed and she still writes them religiously each year. Every year Gosha makes a goal that caters to her personality, academics, money management, and employment. She not only writes it down in her notes app, but she also does a Pinterest board similar to Wimbish. She does this because she likes carrying everything on her phone. One of her top resolutions is to go to more NAHS football games during senior year. “My New Year’s resolutions help me grow more every year,” she said.
It is no surprise that resolutions are still made, nonetheless writing them down is not the only way the dubs make them. The creative ways in which they plan out their year obviously coincide with each of their personalities. So far resolutions are in and thriving. Only time will tell if they are accomplished.
