A Foolish Consistency
What a difference a year makes:
I have simply resolved not to make my resolutions public, and also to not wait for calendar years to roll around to come up with some resolve. I fervently feel that each day—and, if you want to get honest, each hour, each minute, and each second—is an opportunity for us to begin the long road of change.
Starting tomorrow and going through the 13th of January, I’ll post one resolution a day, to be acted upon by the end of each subsequent month. The easier resolutions are certainly front-loaded, but a couple of the ones at the end will require more than a late-fall push to make them happen.
– THEREFORE, Let it be hereby resolved …, 1 Jan 2006
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statement and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series. Self-Reliance.
Honestly, I’m just amused that no one noticed this before I did. Like many, I take finding inconsistencies in others to be something of a sport. :sigh:
Maybe it’s not about inconsistency, but more about the fact that we are not static beings.
January 8th, 2006 at 20:58Well, I think that’s some of what Emerson was getting at there. [Most of the rest of it, though, is a bit ... out there.]
January 8th, 2006 at 22:16