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Or in other words, my New Years resolutions, done with reckless abandon, wild dreaming and unbridled imagination.

We’ve all been there, haven’t we? That place where we feel full to bursting with desires to accomplish myriad impossible things. For readers in particular I believe this time of year is one fraught with heady aspirations of all the worlds we just might be able to explore. Whether we put voice to them or not, readers (and book bloggers in particular), are thinking of all the challenges we can set for ourselves or take part in and accomplish. We are thinking of the hundreds of books we could get through if we could just get rid of some of those annoying obligations…like sleeping, for example. We are full of optimism knowing that this will be an amazing reading year.

But this is true in many areas, not just reading. We have these admittedly false hopes of untold changes we fully expect to make in the new year in our finances, relationships, health, career paths, spirituality as well as those pleasure areas like reading. It is intoxicating to dream these dreams, more so to write them down and generate conversation regarding them.

And I believe that is healthy, to a point anyway–that point being that it is all fun and games until someone gets hurt. I believe it is important to set goals and that it is a worthwhile exercise to embrace tradition and set resolutions, for lack of a more effective word, for ourselves at the start of the new year, provided these giddy, emotionally charged moments don’t turn into depression-inducing shame spirals later on.

It doesn’t break my heart when reality sets in and I cannot accomplish all the goals I set for myself. Such is the stuff of life.

And so in the spirit of having fun I am going to do this differently this year and just give into the bliss of imagining the truly impossible.

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