It’s about finding joy in the small things and making the most of the present moment.
Like it or not, it’s time to make New Year’s resolutions. It’s also time to make fun of the New Year’s resolutions. Are we still seriously working on them? How long would we stick to them? Or how long would we even remember them? One of the jokes about the new year's resolutions is that we always give them a prelude by saying “this year is different.”
Or maybe this year is truly different for me. In 2023, I will ditch those fancy resolutions like fitness, skill-learning, and habits. I want to cook a big meal whenever I can and enjoy it for no reason.
I am inspired by my mom. In the first week of 2023, she recovered from a two-weeks Covid-19 infection. While many senior people in China got hit by Covid really badly, she seems to hold up pretty okay physically and mentally. She didn’t skip any of the symptoms, fever, headache, sore throat, pain in the bones, and loss of taste and smell. If anything different, it was how she treated the pain caused by Covid-19. She said, once it was confirmed that she was positive, she stopped worrying. Instead, she cherished every stage on the path of recovery.
The fever stopped, she cherished it. The headache was gone, she celebrated it. Then the pain in her bones, the throat, she…
