The Unlived Life

Most of us have two lives, the life that we live, and the unlived life within us. This is a fact that most of us are aware of when things get overly hard or bland in life. We escape into the “what-ifs”. Setting new year resolution is about taking a hopeful peep into the “what-ifs”. Approaching the end of 2019, I had visioned into the way of living into 2020:

• break free from the final straw of commitment, and reborn wild into the world
• for the love of body, use it consciously and beyond the muscle imagination
• limit social moment to the highest quality and depth
• romance only with self
• cultivate a text-less social interaction
• the year of creation rather than perfection

At first glance, these are all regular new year resolutions. Readers of it on Instagram have expressed how by reading the list is making them calm, happy and hopeful. We all love new year resolution, after all, it is a feel-good moment when we are yet shatter by our own resistance (often in disguise of laziness, tiredness, lack of time, lack of motivation..etc).

New year resolution is barely simplistic or as it is. Coming to it often is supported by an accumulation of our desires, failures, ambitions, or simply the guts of knowing “Hey, there is this unlived life that I…