My Four New Year’s Resolutions
By: Stepan Barutkin
Tags: University, Family Tree, Lunn, New Years Resolutions, Productivity

Welcome to another another part of my English homework😸 Today I’d like to share with you my New Year’s resolutions — goals, that I want to achieve in 2020. Let’s go!

In the next year (actually now it’s already present year😅) I’d like to…

1) Stop being late anywhere. Actually it was my main “small goal” for the whole life. One of my biggest disadvantages is my tardies. I can late for just a few minutes, but practically anywhere. The thing is that I always spent to much time on checking my house: is the light off everywhere? is the refrigerator door tightly closed? does the tap water flow? is the gas stove definitely off? are all electrical appliances unplugged and the TV and computer turned off? is the apartment door closed? DID I FINALLY TAKE ALL MY THINGS OR DID I FORGET SOMETHING??? — all these questions are always in my poor head every time I leave my flat. Recently, in some article I read that such an obsessive desire to check everything can be one of the signs of schizophrenia… after that, I want to quit this habit, check everything only once, and finally get to university on time. I promise myself that!✋

2) Finish the family tree. As I said once in my presentation, I’ve been creating my family tree on the site MyHeritage.com since the beginning of last summer. That was when I realized two fundamental truths at the exact same time. Firstly, I realized that unfortunately, my grandparents are not eternal. And even if now they all are still alive (thank God), this will not last forever. They’re a living memory of their parents, grandparents and ancestors. I decided to talk a lot with them on this topic and to take up a collection of biographies of my ancestors, while there’s still time. And the second truth that I realized was that I suddenly wanted to leave any spiritual or cultural legacy to my descendants. However, I’m not good at singing, drawing or creating sculptures, but during my preparation for Unified State Exam in history, I loved this subject very much. Studying history, I saw how important it is — to leave something valuable after you (I mean not only material inheritance of course), something good and useful, for which you will be remembered by posterity with a good word. For myself, I decided that this «something» after me will remain a family tree and the memory of my ancestors, since the beginning of the 20th century. Of course, I hope that I will be remembered by my descendants not only for this family tree, but also for many other good deeds, but at the same time I hope that among them there will be someone who will continue my «life’s work».

Well, moving back to our topic…

3) Don’t go to bed so late and go to bed on time. Of course I know that students life includes 3–5 hours of sleep (#stereotypes😒) but when I sometimes have to sleep for 5 hours, I do not recover at all and go all day tired😴 So, my goal is to get all my things done on time, start getting ready for bed at 23:00 and fall asleep at 00:00 to get at least 7 hours of healthy sleep. That would be enough😌

4) Walk more. Just because it’s healthy🤷‍♂️ I live just a 15-minute walk from the University, but I still get to it every morning by transport, because I’m often in a hurry or I’m just too lazy to go uphill (or it’s too cold outside💁‍♂️). Now I try to get home after university on foot and I hope that this spring I will walk by foot in many beautiful places in Nizhny Novgorod, for example on the Volga embankment and and the Chkalovsky stairs. It is very beautiful there at any time of the year🙂

So so so that were My Four New Year’s Resolutions, I hope you find them meaningful (at least not stupid, let’s say😅) Thank you for reading this and as always I’m sorry, if I’ve made any mistakes, I’m always tryna do my best😉

See you in my next tomorrow’s blog (oops, #spoilers😹)

Bye-bye! 👋

P.S.

Happy Old New Year to everybody🌲❤️

S.Bar