New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day

CHAPTER ONE

SUNDAY 1 JANUARY

"Yes. No. I was at a party in London last night. Bit hungover, actually." I gabbed nervously so that Una and Mum wouldn't think I was so useless with men I was failing to talk to even Mark Darcy. "But then I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second."

Helen FIELDING, Bridget Jones's Diary, 1996

 

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My newyear's resoltions: Be more rational and happier and anti-obssessional, anti-mania, anti-anxiety of disorders!