by Nadya Williams (@NadyaWilliams81)
Without fail, every year on January 1, multiple celebrities and normal people alike post on social media about the diets they are starting to drop the holiday weight. People who haven’t touched a vegetable in months are suddenly posting righteous selfies with salads. The local gyms boast much higher attendance rates, frustrating the regulars who can’t gain access to their usual treadmill for a few weeks. Other health-related self-improvement projects also commence on like clockwork. No question about it: We love the idea of starting fresh, and doing something that would be good for us. But these kinds of New Year’s resolutions, while good for many people, still smack too often of modern American individualism. Perhaps this individualistic nature of most New Year’s resolutions also has to do with their low success rate. By February, as the jokes go, the January gym warriors have turned back into couch potatoes.
