<i>Warning</i> rant:<p>All this can add is satisfaction for attention-seekers, and public shame when it's not achieved. I find new year resolutions as offensive as St. Valentines' Day.<p>If I want to do something (stop smoking, write an app or redecorate a room) I just... get to it. It doesn't need to be January 1st. I simply need to <i>want</i> it.<p>Valentines is much the same. Society shames you into spending money - the message is if you don't, you don't love her. Fuck that. It has much more value when I demonstrate my love in private, on my own terms, without the social pressure of anything.<p>What I do is my choice. How I react to something beyond my control is my choice. I choose value over approval-seeking.