and this bird you cannot change with a new year's resolution

for new years we come up with resolutions to better ourselves. on christmas we're expected to be nicer to one another. on thanksgiving we're supposed to show gratitude for things. i suppose next they'll expect us to be more loving to our significant others on valentine's day. with all these holidays imposing on us what to do, when do we ever have a chance to just be who we are?

are we all horrible people in need of several days a year to remind us to try and be better than what we actually are? maybe we're chasing something that's not possible. maybe we're all just looking for ways to hide who we really are... which might help explain some of the popularity of halloween (although i'm sure candy and slutty costumes factor in there somewhere).

i think it's great that tons of people resolve to better themselves this time of year. but i can't help but feel like a good portion of it is totally insincere. it feels like some of this may be a case of mob mentality. if everyone else wasn't doing it, would you? or would you allow today to be like any other day because technically that's all it is... just another day. we put labels on the days and we try to fill them with this imaginary sense of worth but if you strip the titles away from the holidays, it's just another 24 hour period.

if you're feeling the spirit, then by all means, go be a better person and go love your girlfriend more and be a patriot and remember the veterans and do all these things that these "special" days remind us to do. but maybe do them everyday... or maybe don't do them at all. allow yourself to make today whatever day you want it to be. don't let the calender bully you into wasting a day acting how you don't wanna act. if you're a horrible person (or a great human being who's in need of no improvement whatsoever) and you know it and you know that this bird you cannot change, then fly on freebird and do your thing. define your day, don't let it define you.