Do Good

This year, I have one resolution: Do good.      

I’ve never look at the New Year as a chance to start fresh with new beginnings – I’ve never counted down to the biggest anticlimax of the year, I’ve never purchased poppers and festive frilly hats with glasses awkwardly shaped as numbers, and I’ve never made resolutions.  This year is the exception. 

The New Year has never signified more to me than the start of my favorite TV shows, and yes I am talking about the quality reality television shows The Millionaire Matchmaker and The Bachelor on Bravo and ABC, respectively.  I’ve never seen a point in making resolutions; after all, what is scrawling down a list of meaningless words like work hard in school, exercise more, break out of my shell, and eat healthy foods really going to do for me in the long run?

This year, I celebrated my New Year in my room upstairs watching episodes of Boy Meets World on Youtube.  Boy Meets World is a show about the coming of age that follows two characters named Cory and Topanga through elementary school, college, and ultimately marriage.  Their teacher, Mr. Feeny also follows them throughout their journeys towards self-discovery.  In the final episode, he gives his final words of wisdom to the group: “Do good.”  When Topanga asks if he means do well, he says “No.  I mean do good.”

And then the clock struck midnight, and the New Year was confirmed with the buzz of Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin’s voices saying “Happy New Year” from the television downstairs. 

An epiphany came over me when I was watching TV the next day filled with commercials persuading me to join Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, commercials asking me to “get my life back on track” and get a degree from ITT Tech.  All we really need out of life to do good, to be good, and to spread goodness.  Doing good is the most that we can ask of ourselves to find perfect equilibrium. 

I invite you all to watch the last scene of Boy Meets World at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgbvtZAYv1g.