With intent!
You definitely have to do this one thing in 2020
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No, we don't mean the tax return for 2019, nor the hoarding of huge amounts of raclette cheese before it sells out. Our author thinks there is something much more important!
by Marie Stadler
And it's that time again. We slide on for a year towards the next joys, adventures and disasters. Always with you: 87 good resolutions. We want to get richer, happier, healthier, thinner, more handsome and even more wonderful every year. Does this make sense? Not a bit. Because an even better version of us would actually be a terrible show off. Therefore: Stop the madness of intent and into a new year in which we are simply satisfied with ourselves. How do you start the year happily anyway? With self-deception!
In 2020 I will finally stop
Most people are pretty good at dealing with self-deception anyway. So why not use it on your way to happiness? That's why there is exactly one TO DO before midnight on New Year's Eve. Start with any vice. For my part, I always smoke on December 31st. I buy a box of butts in the morning and already after breakfast (I know, I'm a pussi, before breakfast it would be more consistent), I start drinking the butts. I also share very generously and have now found a few comrades-in-arms who make sure that I don't feel so sick. Very important: a few cigarettes have to be left over anyway.
The really big gesture
Punctually at midnight I then dispose of the box with great pathos, if possible with at least one or two smoldering sticks in it. "I will definitely quit smoking in 2020" I then promise and feel as successful as an Oscar winner, because I know: I will make it. And so I will go to my future this year with my head held high. With just one intention. And I keep that. It can only be that I'll get weak again on the last day of the year. But then I just forgive myself again. Maybe, very maybe, that is where the secret of happiness lies.