Time to make your New Year's resolutions
It's the end of the year. It's the end of not just any year either. It's the end of 2020, the year of a pandemic and the near- collapse of the stock- market.
As we look back on what's happened this year, perhaps some of you have started planning 2021: what you thought of this year, your New Year's resolutions and what you hope 2021 will have that 2020 didn't.
With that in mind, the WDN went around the community and asked. Here's what some of you had to say:
Amy Fisher reflected on 2020 and said, "It's been a long year."
Her New Year's resolution is to "Just to get healthier." Fisher said, “I hope that for the country we can all get healthy together… It doesn't mean we have to agree with each other. It just means that we can all work together to get healthy physically and mentally."
Mark Kintsle said his 2020 was full of “Confusion, bad communication and bad leadership.”
His resolution is to “Have a better 2021,” which he says will be accomplished through "Better leadership, this country coming together, and we're all one here, instead of fighting each other all the time. The biggest thing I could hope for [ in] 2021 is people accepting reality instead of unreality."
Alisha Frost said 2020 was an awakening.
"I think it was a wake- up call for a lot of people, and I think health is fragile when you don't eat healthy and have a healthy lifestyle. I think it helped push people in the right direction to eat healthy and make good choices."
Frost said her plans were to "Just clean- up the diet and limit the sugar and… get back to a healthy lifestyle."
Lindsay Zielonka said, "I think it's probably been a really hectic and stressful year for a lot of people, but it did sort of force us to slow down and be with our families a little bit more."
On what she hopes will change in the coming year: "A little bit better balance between work, family and time for myself." Her resolution is "Taking more time for myself to enjoy doing the things that I enjoy doing."
Carolyn Schneider is looking forward to the end of the year.
” I’m just glad it's gone. I've never lived through anything like that,” Schneider said of 2020. "I live by myself, and it's easy to get a sandwich here and there. I'm going to start cooking a little more for myself. I eat healthy, but I need to not go out as much."
Schneider shared her hopes for 2021, "I hope a Christian is still in the White House, and that people will be gentler and kinder to one another."
This year hasn’t been easy, Brock Leach said, "It's definitely been a difficult time, a trying time. But to see the community come together, support each other, it's been a fun thing to see."
Leach’s New Year's resolution was to "Just be the same good person year after year." Leach said in
2021 he hopes for “a little more understanding from
people. A little more togetherness, and see everyone come together and push forward through this pandemic."
Kim Hilty of Lima said, “It was a really boring year; you couldn’t do anything.”
She said though she isn’t making any New Years resolutions. And wants fear mongering to be over with.
Jerry Schwartz of Lima summed his up feelings about 2020. When asked how the year was for him, he simply said, “You don’t want me to answer that.” He did say the year got better during the summer months as his granddaughter shows sheep at fairs. He also didn’t make New Year’s resolutions but said he wants “stuff to open back up”. Schwartz said he enjoys going to the casino. “You can’t go because they close at 10 p. m.” Schwartz said. He also wants fairs to be full events. “The kids last year, they had a fair but they didn’t have a fair,” Schwartz said.
Dwight Steinke of Wapakoneta said his year was like everyone else’s with some good and some bad. He said though he didn’t make resolutions, his goal for 2021 was to just survive. When asked what he was looking forward to in 2021 he said, “At my age just take it day by day and enjoy the day when you got it.”
Alice Carter of Waynesfield said her 2020 was crazy. Her workout partner Sherrie Fisher said she and Carter came to the gym as much as they could.
Carter said they plan to work out five days a week and get stronger. Fisher said they plan to stay consistent.
Carter said, “something normal again would be wonderful.” Fisher agreed and is also looking forward to “pre- mask life.”
Andrew Healy of Wapakoneta said 2020 was a struggle for him as it was for others:” I got to keep working, but it was still a rough time.”
Healy said in 2021 his goal would be to make more money, provide a better life for his family, and not let his pants get tight.
Healy said he was looking forward to getting back to normal, with athletic events and concerts. “I hope next year is a better year for everybody.”
Devon Dobie of Wapakoneta said 2020 was challenging but he is looking forward to the new year.
His resolution is to become a better version of himself all around and said the Wapakoneta Athletic Club helps him to clear his head. Dobie said he still has more work to do before hitting any fitness personal records.
“It’s as normal as it can be,” he said of exercising at the gym during the pandemic. He was hopeful to see more people in the gym once pandemic conditions improve.