New Year Resolutions

New Years day in this age has become a day of making resolutions.  With it we are filled with new hope and plan on doing better than we have done in the past.  The Old Year has brought us many disappointments and in a sense we realize that we have failed.  The Old Year seems like a tottering old man, whose shoulders are bent as if his work is done, and no one regrets his departure, so is bidden good-bye without regret.  But the New Year is given an enthusiastic welcome and everybody seems happy...