I Ubulu-Uku ‘asho ofu’ means New Year. It attracts a whole lot of expectations and preparations arising from the belief that we all need to start the preceding year on a clean slate.
Yes! Everybody wants a new beginning even though some don’t have a targeted plan for the new year. Some even believe in that superstition which makes us believe that a new year must bring a new good thing. Others make what they call New Year Resolutions (NYR).
Personally, I don’t believe in any NYR; this is because it hardly works most of the times. For instance, I have a friend who is a chained-smoker;on the New Year eve, he threw away his packet of cigarette after puffing some ‘last’ sticks. In his own wisdom, the gentleman declared before me that his NYR is to quit smoking, swearing that he would never smoke again. Truly it worked for the guy for sometime but before March in that same New Year, the same young man went back to cigarettes.The above analysis is just one in a million. I have also seen an Ubulu person who told me that he would never drink alcohol in his life again. He made the NYR in December 31 2002 in a bar near palace junction at Akpama quarters; today, this same fellow takes more than 3 liters of beer daily. He has forgotten his NYR he made right before my humble self.
My argument here is that we should stop that NYR mentality and deal with our problems squarely. If youwant to stop any habit that you feel is negative, you can do that as soon as your mind tells you the truth. If you notice such bad habit in November, please drop it in that very month. Waiting to act by 12 midnights in any December 31 is simply a self-mockery.
So if you are making any NYR tonight, I advise you toshift it to another day. Hiding under December 31 may not be the real solution. The truth however remains that we must summon that courage to deal with our attitudinal problems; it should not only be executed on December 31 only but also in some other common days of the year.
I don’t think I have any bad habit, except that I poke nose into the affairs of men, especially Ubulu-Uku people.
But even though, I want to drop such behavior, I will not do it on December 31 simply because I don’t believe in NYR.
Yes! Everybody wants a new beginning even though some don’t have a targeted plan for the new year. Some even believe in that superstition which makes us believe that a new year must bring a new good thing. Others make what they call New Year Resolutions (NYR).
Personally, I don’t believe in any NYR; this is because it hardly works most of the times. For instance, I have a friend who is a chained-smoker;on the New Year eve, he threw away his packet of cigarette after puffing some ‘last’ sticks. In his own wisdom, the gentleman declared before me that his NYR is to quit smoking, swearing that he would never smoke again. Truly it worked for the guy for sometime but before March in that same New Year, the same young man went back to cigarettes.The above analysis is just one in a million. I have also seen an Ubulu person who told me that he would never drink alcohol in his life again. He made the NYR in December 31 2002 in a bar near palace junction at Akpama quarters; today, this same fellow takes more than 3 liters of beer daily. He has forgotten his NYR he made right before my humble self.
My argument here is that we should stop that NYR mentality and deal with our problems squarely. If youwant to stop any habit that you feel is negative, you can do that as soon as your mind tells you the truth. If you notice such bad habit in November, please drop it in that very month. Waiting to act by 12 midnights in any December 31 is simply a self-mockery.
So if you are making any NYR tonight, I advise you toshift it to another day. Hiding under December 31 may not be the real solution. The truth however remains that we must summon that courage to deal with our attitudinal problems; it should not only be executed on December 31 only but also in some other common days of the year.
I don’t think I have any bad habit, except that I poke nose into the affairs of men, especially Ubulu-Uku people.
But even though, I want to drop such behavior, I will not do it on December 31 simply because I don’t believe in NYR.
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