By Tvisha Garodia and Amelie Ruiz
Throughout the festive season of winter, there are many worldwide traditions that people follow. For the New Year, people everywhere make new promises and resolutions, but do people always follow through with them? A few Moreau students were asked about their New Year’s resolutions, familial traditions, and whether they keep these goals and commitments.
Junior Samantha Komrowski had a lot of ideas for her New Year’s resolutions, including sleeping more and expanding her productivity skills, such as keeping her physics grade up and studying more in advance of tests. When asked about whether or not she tends to follow her resolutions, she confidently stated, “Absolutely not.” However, she does follow simple traditions, such as spending time with family while celebrating the New Year very casually.
Some people’s familial traditions are more specific. Senior Bernadette Gamboa’s family follows a tradition of eating rice together, with the amount of rice grains left over being the amount of pimples they’ll get that year! Her grandparents also hang up grapes above their doorways for good luck.
On the other hand, Junior Ivanka Menezes does not usually celebrate the New Year with traditions or with resolutions, since she does not tend to follow them. However, she stated that this year she would love to start her new tradition of eating grapes under the table for luck since she tried it last year!
Some Mariners are a little more optimistic about following their resolutions. Sophomore Stuti Pemmaraju explains that following her resolutions depends on how realistic they are, leading to her meeting them around 50 percent of the time. This year, she aims to focus on more things outside of school and to sleep earlier, and on this New Year’s Eve, she will be baking food for her family’s New Year’s party.
Freshman Victoria Gomez Steiner takes a more spiritual path with her New Years traditions and goals, commenting,“I say that the first step I’m gonna take is to heal first, and then we’ll see and pray that I implement habits that help me be more confident and healthier along the way!” Gomez Steiner also recounts her success rate of past resolutions: “Usually I start out strong, but I am, of course, human, and do tend to falter from the goals I put ahead of me, which is why I chose what I chose for this year’s resolution.”
New Year’s is a time for renewal and beginnings, and resolutions help people expand beyond their comfort zone. Here at Moreau, the students are always pushing themselves to try new things, pick up new habits, and be better people. Remember Mariners, you can make a change at any time of the year, but New Years just happens to be right here – what are your resolutions, Mariners?
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