My new year's resolution

When I write things down, I commit them to memory and to heart. I make the words true, for if I do not, I would have lied to myself and to lie is to be unjust. So, here goes.

My new year's resolution is to stop thinking about other people. Selfish people have it so much easier. I do not know why I even bother. From now on, I will think only for myself, for every single time I do otherwise, I only end up hurt. I will not care about other people's feelings for, anyway, most of the time, all they care about are their feelings. Why bother, really. Why bother.

"At the end of the day, shit. With that mighty word, you can console yourself for all human miseries, so I enjoy repeating it: shit, shit."
-- From Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert