A New Lifestyle Comes with the New Year

Feature
By Allie Wight
Husky Herald Reporter

  ‘Tis the season when people decide that they want to make an attempt at a lifestyle change! Many people see the New Year as a perfect opportunity to start fresh and make something more of themselves.

  New Year’s resolutions may be easy to start, but once the motivation and excitement of starting something new dwindles down, following through the entire year proves to be very difficult. Very rarely do people keep with their resolution the whole year.

  Olivia Ramsey (‘19) has made a New Year’s resolution for 2016, and is sticking to it rather well. “For my New Year’s resolution, I decided to push myself hard at every basketball game and every practice and do the best that I can do to become a better player,” Ramsey said.

  “Usually when I make New Year’s resolutions I don’t really follow through with them for the whole year because over time I either forget about them or just get bored with what I planned on doing.” Ramsey said. She also said that she wants to keep her New Year’s resolution for as long as the high school basketball season continues.

  Sarah Wight (‘19) has also made a New Year’s resolution. “This year I’ve decided to make my diet a lot better and almost always eat healthy foods. I chose this as my resolution because for the past year or so I’ve been eating a lot of junk food and I decided that I want to be healthier,” Wight said.

  “I’ve actually stuck to my resolution really well so far. Other than the occasional slushie, I’ve been strict with my diet and have been eating all healthy foods,” Wight said. “My friends have been giving me grief about it because I’m pretty skinny and they say I don’t need to go on a diet, but the point is for me to be healthy.”

  Anna Vanderheuvel (‘18) didn’t make a New Year’s resolution. “I usually don’t ever make New Year’s resolutions because there’s not really anything I feel like I need to change about my life. Even if something comes along that I want to change, I don’t need to wait for it to be a new year to do something about it,” VanderHeuvel said.