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LESS than ten days until Santa comes knocking and I, along with a lot of others, am thinking about New Year’s.
I have said it before and I will say it again, I don’t see the hype around New Year’s. This whole “New Year, New You” idea is nothing more than a good marketing campaign to me. I don’t see the logic behind New Year’s resolutions when it’s just another date on the calendar.
Yes, of course, I get the fact that some people need the drive that New Year’s presents, but I can think of other ways to propel them if you get my gist.
So my version of New Year’s resolution has nothing to do with the date, for arguments sake at least. I have decided to do a little clear out on those people that I keep around me. I know it seems harsh but I have decided that everyone in my life that either makes me unhappy or has a general negative impact on me is getting the boot.
We are all able to ascertain at this point who our real friends are and who are just along for the ride. Trust me, the ones who are just tagging along with you are pretty easy to identify.
Here are a few general characteristics to make the division between your true friends and the ones who tag along.
Firstly, these people will probably only meet you when it suits them or when you have something to offer them. These are the people who only contact you when they need something from you. They are the ones who latch onto you because of what they think it will do for them.
Or, even worse, there are the people who only hang out with you to try and leech any gossip from you so that they can go and complain about you to someone else. Oddly, these people are the most common.
Trust me, they’re not worth it.
That’s why I’m choosing to let these people filter out of my life. I’m not going to assassinate them or anything but I’m simply not going to make an effort with them if they don’t make an effort with me.
Why wait to conduct this spring cleaning exercise? If you are adamant about the “New Year, New You” thing then why not add this to your regime. You may just think that I am just complaining about people or something, but I do believe that you deserve people who care about you as much as you care about them.
A couple of years ago, I has almost 700 “friends” on Facebook. Now I barely hit the 150 mark. Why not participate in this little online clear out while you’re at it as well?
Yes, it may be a little tragic when you only have all your family members liking all of your posts (trust me I know the feeling) but at least you don’t have anyone who has less than good intentions stalking your page.
Final thought for the day; keep your real friends that you have close this year and distance yourself from the others.
At least it narrows down that Christmas list…
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