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I started the year with a few New Year’s resolutions — but my main, and most challenging, was this one — becoming more physically active.
More of us than ever are sitting around all day with a seemingly ever-expanding array of distractions, from smartphones and social media to streaming sites and TV. It’s too tempting after a day of work and family to tune out or spend our waking lives addicted to our digital devices.
The consequences are clear — it is quite literally, and slowly, killing us and making us miserable as we slowly waste our lives away. This inescapable existential dread is reinforced by the very real fact that a physically inactive life is shorter than it needs to be and one in which we are less mobile and less happy.
Now a few drinks on New Year’s Eve is a great way to celebrate the new year but a terrible way of preparing for any New Year’s resolutions you have planned. It is a great excuse to skip the 1st of January and start fresh the day after. But at 8pm on New Year’s Day, I thought ‘Let’s do this.’ I stepped out into the strange post-Christmas cold and dark bleakness of the first night of the new year. After…
