The countdown is coming to an end as households across the nation view from their televisions the yearly Time Square ball drop in New York. With grand cheers, the audiences call, “Happy New Years!” After the initial drink toasts and kisses, it is time to conclude the New Year’s Resolution. Though, it may be a well followed tradition, in the coming New Year these promises always seem to fall short.

While resolutions demonstrate admirable commitment, the lack of results from follow up demonstrates the opposite. Junior Hunter Collins agrees, commenting on the yearly event stating, “I don’t think most people follow with their New Year’s Resolution, but rather just say them because they want to follow the tradition.”

In a recent study, the University of Scranton took a poll of New Year’s Resolutions and how well people followed them up. The top resolution made was to lose weight marking, with 49 percent of people having infrequent success in obtaining their goal. In contrast, only eight percent actually achieve their objective.

With results like these, there seems to be no need to keep a tradition that many fail to accomplish.

So what is the reason for resolutions? One idea is that people feel the need to make up for all the wrong they had done from the previous year. In a sense it is a promise of rejuvenation.At one point, this may have been the honest reason for the annual promise, however, some may think even this is a poor idea.

Sophomore Torie Reagan validates this in stating, “It shouldn’t take a new year to motivate you to fix something in your life.”

It appears then that people are just doing it to do it, in a sort of bandwagon system. And in today’s technological era, deciding on a resolution has become something to send out on Facebook and Twitter, in order to fulfill a person’s status. With that in mind, the New Year’s Resolution shows as another trend to be followed. Though, the original message from the tradition does still hold true to many.

Sophomore Joshua Martin noted, “I think it is good for people to have a goal in mind.”

The New Year’s Resolution should be something that everyone tries to accomplish instead of neglecting, so it is best to make the goal attainable and find ways of keeping oneself motivated in the upcoming year.