I've decided for 2025 to do a different take on New Year's Resolutions. In years gone by I used to make a few realistic goals for myself, things which I thought I could actually achieve in a year, and inevitably I failed to achieve those resolutions - I'm not even sure how many I have kept over the years. Then for a while I became vehemently opposed to the entire concept deciding that it was a tradition that set people up for failure, and only amplified misery and feelings of worthlessness.
73 Questions inspired by Vogue
I've always enjoyed those videos on Youtube where Vogue takes a random celebrity or someone of influence and asks them 73 questions in an effort to get to know them better. It's interesting to see how a person sees the world and even when they don't give simple answers, the response they give tells you a lot about the person and their priorities.
The actual questions asked varies in each video it's not the same 73 questions every time I believe, so I had a look around various blogs where people made their own posts and used those as the basis for this list. So here are my 73 Questions and their answers.
Procrastination
Procrastination gets quite a bad rap and I've been thinking about why that's the case. In a previous post I mentioned the fact that our society dominated by capitalism is obsessed with productivity and uses it to define our self-worth and I've come to the conclusion the derision for procrastination is just an extension of that obsession.
When you really stop and think about it, procrastination is the only true choice a human can make, because you're actively choosing to do something you want to do as opposed to something you're expected to do. When you're supposed to do something, or there's an expectation placed upon you, it's because it is a choice someone else has already made for you, the only thing you get to "choose" is whether to go along with it or not.
The Other Great Depression
Are you happy with your life? That should be a simple question to answer but for far too many, myself included, the answer is not so simple - not least of all being that the answer is often a dynamic variable rather than a constant. Whether I am happy with my life varies depending on when you ask me, morning, noon, or night, and a whole host of influences in my life that fluctuate with much less rhythm and routine.
I've felt like I am not alone in this view, when I look at my circle of friends there are few that are thriving, most are simply surviving, and at the age of 36 it pains me to admit that I have lost some people who didn't survive. I've written about my own complex relationship with suicide and my past attempts, and of the concept of survivor's guilt that leads me to question why I am still here and others aren't - others I thought stronger than me in almost every regard.
The repetition of life to the point of monotony with the absence of emotion to me is the hallmark of depression - there are many other ways to define it, which I think are also valid depending on the context, but this as much I can say is a sign of depression, when people are still alive but they aren't really living.
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