New Year’s Day has been celebrated for as far back as 4,000 years, according to history.com. As the new year rang in this year, people all over America made their resolutions. According to statisticbrain.com, about 45 percent of Americans make a New Year’s resolution regularly, while a whopping 8 percent achieve their goal. Some of the most popular resolutions for 2015 included weight loss, organization improvement, spending less money, enjoying life and staying healthy.
SHS staff and students have similar thoughts about whether or not people stick to their resolutions, or if they ditch their goals faster than the ball dropped at midnight on New Years.
Along with 37 percent of people who give up on their resolutions, social studies teacher Nathan Fishel says he has also struggled and fallen short when trying to achieve his resolution of running every day. Fishel seems to think that the majority fail at their resolution after just a few weeks.
“I would say generally they don’t [complete their resolutions],” Fishel said. “I would say they generally kind of fizzle out after two, three, four weeks, maybe six weeks, but I will say that I’ve tried to do this before and I’ve not been successful.”
Junior Catherine Johnson believes that whether or not a resolution is accomplished depends on if the person’s goal is realistic or not.
“Well…I think it depends,” Johnson said. “Some people have easily achievable ones…realistic ones…My mom and I were making a joke last night. We both pass the L.A. Fitness all the time, and it’s been so busy because everyone has that New Year’s resolution to get fit.”