Just duck into this alleyway with me and I’ll transpose some of mine over to you.

Seriously, I have willpower to spare and wouldn’t mind if you took a bit of it. With the arrival of the fresh set of 365, I’m sure you have a few resolutions you’d like to start and stick with. So here, have some strength of mind and body and will. While we’re at this exchange, you could take some of my introspection as well. I’m sure you could use some of that too.

I’d be happy to part with some of this incessant need to examine my life at every turn. You, on the other hand – just by merely having stepped into this alleyway with me – you’ve shown yourself to be in dire need of self-analysis, and the aforementioned willpower, which would have given you the inner strength to immediately refuse my abnormal offer.

While we’re here in this seedy back alley, with the light from that apartment Christmas tree up there shining a bit of friendly brightness down on us, allow me to tell you about why I don’t much care for New Year’s Resolutions. Continue reading →