New Year's Resolutions are Annoying

          New year's resolutions are annoying and pointless because so few people follow through with them. This may be a bit dramatic, but it is true, very few people follow through with their new year's resolutions which makes the idea of them to be quite pointless. For example, my resolution was to read for my AP World History class, and I didn't even last a day. However if people were to pull through with their resolutions more, I would not be making this point right now.
          People start the new year by promising to themselves that they will be a better person to others, to themselves, to the earth, and just a better person in general. However, this is hypocritical because if people want to be a better person, honesty is an important characteristic. However, if people can't be honest to themselves about staying true to their new years resolution, then they are no better than they were all of the previous years. It is not just being honest to themselves either, if they told friends and family about their new year's resolution, then their piers will comment when they see that you broke your new years resolution. This leads to the people who want to improve themselves feel even worse about themselves because they couldn't do the one thing that they promised to themselves that they would do, whether it be losing weight, getting a certain job, raising grades, etc.
          The most frustrating part is that what people try to improve is not that hard to achieve, so it is even more infuriating when they are unable to achieve their goal. According to the article "New Years Resolution Statistics" on the Statistic Brain website, the top ten resolutions for the passed few years have been: losing weight, getting organized, spending less and saving more, enjoying life to the fullest, staying fit, learning something exciting, quitting smoking, helping others, helping others achieve their dreams, falling in love, and spending more time with family. Only one or two of these are difficult to achieve, so why is it that eight percent of the people who making successfully achieve their resolution? In cases like quitting smoking, the task may be to difficult for someone to achieve, which is understandable, but goals like helping others or enjoying life are relatively easy to accomplish and usually fail due to laziness.
          People who make new year's resolutions need to do them or else the resolution itself is pointless. The majority of cases where people fail to achieve their goals are a result of laziness, rather than someones inability to do something. It is true some resolutions people have no control over, like finding love, but it is frustrating when people can't commit to staying organized, eating healthier, or even reading and taking better notes for an AP History class. Everyone is guilty for not completing a new years resolution at some point, which makes us all guilty, not just a select few. If someone makes a resolution it should probably be to be less lazy, because if you can't stop being lazy you will never achieve anything in life, whether it be a resolution or an ordinary challenge you come across in your everyday life.