I have always had trouble creating New Year's Resolutions. I thought that they were pointless because I never keep them, forget about them, or I don't need them because I improve my flaws and imperfections every year. However, my main flaw was procrastination, and though procrastination is one of my strong points, it hurts me when I have a paper due and I haven't started it yet. Today I had an English paper due about making New Year's resolutions and since I never make them, it was hard for me to write about having some while it was easy for everyone else. As a writer, it should have been a piece of cake for me to crank out some phony resolutions that sounds good to please my teacher, Mr. Abrams, however, it seems I caught a bit of writer's block because I couldn't think of any thing to say. When he found out about me not writing a paper, he sat down and talked to me. I admitted to not doing it and I told him it was partly because of procrastinating, but also because I don't make resolutions. He gave me some ideas that I could go off of and tried to help me because if I didn't do anything, I would've gotten a zero on the paper. I am grateful to him because he is a generous teacher that gave me a second chance. If it was a college professor, I would've had a zero automatically, but Mr. Abrams, luckily, isn't a college professor. With his help, I came up with a few, very few, resolutions that could help me throughout the year. Even though I may not be able to keep them going, I can try to for the sake of myself and my grade.
I really don't like admitting this but when Mr. Abrams talked to me about me not doing his work, I felt terrible. I could tell he was disappointed in me because I am a good writer and a good student and I didn't do his work. I hate when I disappoint a teacher, whether I like them or not. When I feel like I disappointed a teacher, I feel as though I disappointed myself, if that makes any sense. That's why I'm writing this blog for Mr. Abrams because if it can make him feel more confident in my abilities as a writer, then I can as well. This is the least I can do for him because after all, he did allow me to redeem myself by doing this and I am appreciative of that.
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Even though, I DID MY WORK :P, I feel the same way about resolutions also. I wrote that in my paper too. But, I guess if we never make resolutions we'll never actually find out if we can actually stick to them and change what needs to be changed so we can become more prosperous individuals. Whenever I've attempted to make resolutions, I forget them as fast as I thought of them (terrible), but hopefully this year will be different! :)
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