The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : All meant to be broken

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Tuesday, Jan 01, 2008
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All meant to be broken

Soumya Saxena

The most common resolution is losing weight
For youth, the overriding concern is academics

BANGALORE: Of course, you made that New Year resolution. As you did last year and, surprise, surprise, it is the very same resolution Version 0.8. Ask around and you get sheepish replies. All those noble thoughts last just about a month.

Yet, every year most of us enthusiastically come up with resolutions knowing fully well we are bound to break them sooner or later.

Software engineer Anurag Chaturvedi (28) says that he will stop using Orkut at workplace, concentrating instead on work. Incidentally, his last year’s resolution was to delete his Orkut account.

The most common resolution (especially among the girls) is losing weight and eating less. Like last year. And the year before that.

Tasneem Ahmed (26), homemaker, wants to exercise more and eat less. Similarly Amitabh Sharma (30) vows not to even look at the junk food, but temptation always overrides the mind.

Among the youth, the overriding concern is to ace in their academics. Richa Menon (20) is determined to crack the CAT this year and see herself in IIM-A even as she admits she is lazy.

Interestingly, Sharjeel Ahmed (26) has decided to get married this year. It is another matter he is yet to find The One, something he “always fails to find,” while Mamta Singh (34) is planning to give up watching the daily soaps.

She has come to this conclusion as it is up to her to apply the brakes as the producers look to set to continue them indefinitely.

Vinod Vishwanathan, an MBA student, says: “I have decided to quit smoking and stop burning my parents’ money but that was my last year’s resolution too.”

Subbalaxmi (43) has the last word: “I didn’t think of making any resolution because I know I will break it.”

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