In closing the year 2015 we all had a chance to look back on our year. Around the world we start to plan how 2016 will pan out, to better ourselves and reflect on the mistakes that we refuse to make every New Year.

This year as we continue the fast track to another year of living, the goals put under lock and key into our brain should actually be put into effect. As the younger generation grow up with materialistic things being the highest priority in our lives, as a teenager as well, my goal is to assure myself that the glamour in life won’t exceed my goals of being a good person. Many a times, the younger generation, every school year tends to get sucked into the very things that we try to avoid. Things such as high school fights, how to fit in with the look of everyone else, the newest form of technology and so many other things.

This New Year everyone should take time to actually write out goals and put reminders for ourselves of them in our daily lives. Making a goal and following it through can really have an effect on who one is as a person.

Kathlyn Reese Lo, a sophomore, says, “My New Year’s resolution is to be more active and to balance out my life,” trying out for new sports and putting more time into herself that is how she plans to achieve her goals.

Taylor Payne, a sophomore states, “My goal is be remembered through my life and do more than just exist.”

I believe that everyone would like to be remembered as someone great and not just seen as someone that did the necessary but exceeded it and created better things for the world.

By having a New Year’s resolution one is able to make a plan to achieve it and figure out the steps one needs to go through to make it possible.

The New Year’s resolution of everyone should be to just achieve something in general, whether it be large or small, just to allow themselves to feel better about who they are as a person. As the famous term goes, “New year, new me.” This year we should actually try to implement that into our lives.