The View From Down Here

The View From Down Here

No, you don't need a New Year's Resolution

Jan 10, 2025
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Hello, Happy New Year!

I know this is hardly a controversial take but I hate New Year. Specifically, I hate ‘New Year, new me’ discourse, an entire societal narrative predicated on the idea that nothing you did last year was good enough. I call bullshit.

Also - you may see where this is going - it’s all quite exclusionary, isn’t it? Not everyone can reinv…

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