I’ve never been big on making resolutions because I know I will never keep them. But this prompt asks me to ponder the topic. Thus, in 2022, I resolve to …
- Stay sane
Be healthy
Keep my anxiety under control
Stop making “suggestions” to my middle-aged kids
See friends and family in person when it’s safe
Read more good books
Write more
Eat less
Finish my annual year in review photo book for 2021
Stay connected with old friends
Go to some of my grandkids’ events — in person
Watch my granddaughter graduate from high school — in person
Practice gratitude
Survive*
RetroFlash/100 words
*Following the Shutkin rule regarding RetroFlashes, I must add that I Will Survive, despite its lyrics about men walking out the door, was my go-to girlfriend dance. We performed it many times at work in a totally different context. So, for all of my dear friends out there:
Oh no, not I, I will survive
Oh, as long as I know how to love, I know I’ll stay alive
I’ve got all my life to live
And I’ve got all my love to give and I’ll survive
I will survive, hey, hey
Laurie LevyBoomer. Educator. Advocate. Eclectic topics: grandkids, special needs, values, aging, loss, & whatever. Author: Terribly Strange and Wonderfully Real.
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funny, moving, right on!, well written
You WILL survive, Laurie, with grace and determination, like you do everything else in your life. This pandemic has taken a lot out of all of us, but I know you will continue to enjoy your family in every way possible. Here’s to a better 2022!
Amen, Betsy. Yours has gotten off to the best of all possible starts. 2022 has had a rocky beginning, but I have to believe things will get better.
Brava Laurie, YES YOU WILL!
I think I just need to dance with my girlfriends at a wedding, a real wedding. May 2022 that that possible!
The perfect sentiment in light of our current challenge, Laurie. This year my go-to NYE text message was “We made it!”
Happy New Year to you and yours!
My daughter’s NYE message was “2022 — we’ll give it a try.” I think that sums up the mixture of hope and skepticism we are able to muster these days.
As someone who is prone to making no resolutions, maybe I will just adopt yours! They sound pretty good. And I love the song too. Here’s to going forward.
Thanks, Khati. I’m really going to try to carry out most of these.
Great resolutions for a crazy time, Laurie. All of we “girls” sang that song with many different meanings. Happy New Year and we will emerge better in 2022.
Happy New Year to you too, Marian. Isn’t it strange, given the lyrics, that I Will Survive as an anthem for us “girls.”
I always liked that song. Your list is a good one
Thanks, Dave. Going to give it a try.
Great song choice, Laurie! I actually wrote a story with that title in 2017, which is why the url on yours is i-will-survive-2. I wondered if they would both come up if I did a search, and they do, along with another story you wrote called You Will Survive. In the current pandemic era, survival is our top priority!
It is indeed. Suzy, I have always wondered about the allure of that song for my women friends. It speaks to us in some tribal way.
A great list of resolutions, Laurie. They line up very closely with ones my wife and/or I made for 2022 — if we were to make resolutions, of course.
And, as the eponymous founder of the Shutkin rule, I hereby approve of your invocation of it here. And thanks for the earworm. I will be dancing under the disco ball humming it all day long.
I hate most disco, but that song can still coax me to the dance floor (or at least it used to when we could actually attend things like in-person weddings). I know resolutions are just aspirations, but I’m going to put a bit of extra effort into some of them.
A wonderful list of survival resolutions!
We have to do all we can to get through what is starting out to be 2001 on steroids. Happy New Year!