Step 34: Embrace the New Year

New Year's resolutions are one of the most popular and yet hated of all New Year's traditions. Far more resolutions end up being broken than getting completed, and so often that just depresses people. I know some people who are simply refusing to make resolutions this year.

So here's a new tradition for the New Year:
 Memory Jars

I did this last year, and my New Year's resolution is to fill this year's jar with even more happy memories. Instead of focusing on the bad or mundane that happens throughout the year, your memory jar captures the big events and happy moments. And when you look at all of them at the end of the year (or beginning of the new year, like I did today), it reminds you that even if you did fall off your New Year's Resolution Bandwagon, you still did some amazing things.

Here's a look at some of my fondest memories from 2013

• Got the best role in a school play that I've ever had--Ferdinand (yes, a guy :P) in The Tempest
• Went to Myrtle Beach for Spring Break and threw up for the first time
• Met Mike Mullins, author of the Ashfall trilogy
• Got way too into a Capella music after seeing Six Appeal
• Was in two of my friend's weddings
• Hid random Easter Eggs around the dorm rooms
• Went to Hawaii
• Graduated
• Made "Vote for Batman and Robin" posters and hung them up during senate elections at school
• Learned that corn was in everything (thanks to my roommate for adding that wonderful memory to my jar)

So my question to you: What memories do you hope to make in 2014?
And my challenge to you: Make as many happy memories as you can!