Miles Files: Resolve this! Miles Files: Resolve this! (January 21, 2004)

By Miles McMullin
7th Grader, St. Joseph's School

New Year's resolutions are supposed to be ideas to improve you in the year to come, but, mostly, we forget them and make ourselves worse -- or at least we don't improve, and it is all a joke.

Resolutions are easy to make, but not so easy to keep. One that is common, but easily broken, is: "I will lose weight." Kids my age say, "I will stop picking on my brother/sister," but they don't.

Other common ones are not much of a resolution at all, but just choices. For example, if you eat a lot of chocolate ice cream and want to quit, you might fool themselves by saying, "I won't eat chocolate ice cream anymore." And, you know what? You eat vanilla ice cream instead!

Here is another one that might go hand-in-hand with the vanilla ice cream thing: Say you want to go on a diet so you can look like you are 20 again, and you go on a "special diet" -- such as the ones that let you eat your favorite foods all day. Now, this is just me talking, but how is this possible if you want to lose weight? In my opinion, if you want to lose weight quickly, get lost on a desert island like Tom Hanks.

Now for you young'ens (I shouldn't be talking), your resolutions aren't much better than your parents'. The resolutions you make are "look like Britney Spears" (or, parents, this could be yours, I guess). I say, give it up. If you want my advice, make one simple resolution such as, "I will read Miles Files every month." :) That works.

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