chantel nouseforaname's Reviews > New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep

Funny little short. I decided to read this because the year is winding down and a new year is upon us all. 2019 beckons.

A New Year always puts me into two mindsets that are at odds with one another. One where, I'm incredibly happy for all the new possibilities that the coming year has to provide and the second where I'm also sad about a whole heap of things. Sad about things that happened or didn't happen in the past year, to things that I know I'm going to struggle with in 2019 because I'm bringing them over with me. It's a complex mindset, a "new year". The entire concept around the term "resolution" gives me hella anxiety and I don't suffer from anxiety like that, really... so I try to fight back those emotions by reading books like this one.

I decided to read this to help myself transition from 2018 into 2019 and I realized that everything Samantha Irby wrote here is super on point. Who needs a resolution that probably won't make it into the second week of your "new year, new me" phase? Resolutions are dumb and this short book helped me laugh through everything that I thought I wanted to plan and incorporate into my life. It helped me laugh off everything I try to tell myself about what I think I need to do and it helped me find my way back to a more logical reality before the clock strikes midnight on Dec 31st, 2018.

Thanks, Samantha!