Some didn’t think we’d make past 2012, and yet a new year starts up with 2013! A new year starts and most people come up with New Year’s resolutions while others think that it’s pointless to make a New Year’s resolution. They think that people won’t change, or that even if they make one that they won’t follow through with it. Throughout Leonardtown High School, opinions vary.

Going throughout the school I’ve asked some students what their New Year’s resolution was and why they picked it, or even if they picked one at all. Freshman Amber Abell said “I want to keep on trying even when life gets you down.” Sophomore Robin Rutkowski also commented “I want to try to ignore what people say, because negative opinions will only bring me down.” Both may be clichéd but they’re hard standards to live by and when you stick them out the end result is worth it. Usually when resolutions are made there are temptations that only make it easier to break them. Both students agreed that when they did stick to their resolutions that it make it an easier life style to live by rather than skipping out on the resolutions.

Not all LHS students believe that they need a resolution to make their new year good. Just because the New Year starts doesn’t mean anything has to change or will change. Sophomore Sarah Carroll comments “Nobody ever goes through with them. Only the first month…Then they’re done with it. You shouldn’t have to start a new year to do something.” People want to change things about them but don’t want to start so they say that they’ll wait until the new year, but if they really wanted to do it, they’d start right then and there. Sophomore Jake Bell says “Just because the year changed doesn’t mean that you have to change anything in your life, let alone have the will power to change any of it.” New Year’s is just an excuse to wait to start something you should do for yourself and most likely if you didn’t change before you won’t change for the New Year now.

New Year’s resolutions and opinions are different for everybody, not only the resolution itself but the general opinion about having one. If you make one, it’s usually made depending off of what you need in your life that you want to change within the New Year. Everybody needs change, but maybe not only when the New Year starts.