Write about someone who has finally managed to succeed at a long-standing New Year’s resolution.

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“FINALLY!!!” by Agbesanwa Ayomide

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I typed in the last word and removed my hand from the keyboard so fast like it burnt me. I did it. Wow, I really did it. This is so unbelievable but since it is right in front of me I have no other choice but to believe it. I went to my contact list on my phone where I had stored the number I had gotten from the telephone book in the filling station. When I got the number, I dialed it and relaxed in my seat waiting for the unknown person to answer. ........................................................................... Hello?...

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“A Kaleidoscope of Memories” by Elizabeth Inkim

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Whoever decided that cleaning was therapeutic was a liar, and nothing could convince Roslyn to think otherwise. At best, it was a mild form of torture. For the last few years, she had promised her mother that she would clean her room, donate some of her clothes, and file away her paperwork, and for the past few years, she simply could not find the time. Not that she did not tidy up here and there, because she did, she just simply hadn’t done a deep cleaning in a long while even though her mother reminded her about it often. Although if...

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“Mental Loss” by Ann Layne

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I was always tall and slim. Until my mental health deteriorated and I had to take drugs to help myself feel well. The drugs took a toll on my figure making me gain a lot of weight. At one point I was fifty pounds heavier and feeling badly about all the weight I was gaining. It wasn’t really what I was eating it was the drugs. So would exercising really work. I made my doctor change the medication I was on and got the green light for exercise. At first it was not easy because I was h...

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“Working Towards a Daunting New Year's Resolution” by Morgan Douglas

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Every year people make resolutions for the New Year that they plan to carry out but never do. Things that may just be out of their reach or things that get sidelined by other obligations. They say to themselves that next year will be the year that they finally follow through and that tends to be pushed back as time goes on. Whether it be something like losing weight or saving money instead of spending it all. New Year’s resolutions are hard to accomplish. For several years Greta had put off applying for college thinking she was not go...

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“RESOLVED RESOLUTION” by Aiden Chu

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To be completely, utterly clear, I do not believe in omens. But not accomplishing the same resolution for seven long arse years would not mean a good one. I always try to lose weight, to not eat sweets for a year. Oh, did I not mention? I’m fat. Like, 130 kg fat. No clothes can fit me so strictly speaking, I had to improvise with multiple garments sewed together roughly. In fact, going to the gym, speaking to my psychiatrist, even torture could not part me from my sweets and candy. Yeah, I have a serious sugar addiction. Because of my sugar ...

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“To all the girls I loved before...” by B. Webber

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New year, new me. As the clock announced midnight, the new year began. I was never the type of person to have a new year resolution. It never made much sense to me. Your life goes on, everything stays the same, the only thing that really changes is a number: from 2020 to 2021. But this year is different. I wanted to get better. I needed to change something. If not, they would catch me. As the coronavirus exploded, it covered me and my actions. Autopsies? No. If someone showed up dead, they died because of the...

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“The Early Bird ” by Kumbi Chitenderu

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Two days into the New Year: “Don’t forget!” Valerie texted her friend, her head propped on a pillow. She wiggled her toes, feeling snug in her warm bed. She waited. Speech bubbles appeared then disappeared. Typing, the little caption read at the top of the WhatsApp chat with her friend Tanya. What was taking Tanya so long to type the simple words OK. or even a thumbs up emoji? As she waited for the speech bubbles to form into whatever it was Tanya was still typing (and probably retyping), Valerie switched from her WhatsApp to her In...

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“RESOLVE AND OUTCOME” by Sivaram Govindaraj

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As the New Year approached I was seated with my wife discussing the resolution to be made for 2021. She said “Before we go to that let us review how you did in 2020. You had resolved that you would cut down on swearing. You remember we kept the swear jar with coins near it in case you breached the resolution in the year 2019, but the swear jar was soon filled as you hadn’t kept up your word not to swear. You again decided to keep that resolution for 2020.” “Don’t you think I had largely overcome swearing?” She laughed and said “Let’s review ...

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“The Outpost” by Cody Mitchell

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I’ve been alone for 30 years now. Well—30 years here, about three months in Earth-time. This crimson planet travels around its sun at a mind-boggling speed—3 days to make a trip around the sun as opposed to 365—but just like on Earth, you don’t even realize you’re moving. You can really only tell by the position of the sun, or the gradual movement of the stars in the night sky. I never really thought about how my home was just a rock floating through space until I landed here. - The first 15 years flew by. I had to familiarize myself wit...

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“The frog eat it” by Faith Afolabi

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It was the beginning of the year when everyone is excited about how they made it into the New Year after an eventful 2020 with the spread of the pandemic Coronavirus across the globe. Entering into 2021 gave everyone a sigh of relief. For some, they entered the year with bad news of some sort either s loss of a family friend or the emotions that comes with not having a course of income, especially in January when the month seem to be the longest as finances go down in December with lots of celebrations and expenses in the festive period. Ma...

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“Pilot” by Chris D

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Maybe Einstein was onto something. It was insane to try the same thing over and over expecting better results. Yet there she was, year in and out, resolving to become genuinely happier. To be able to look in the mirror and not completely hate herself. To say, hey, that girl is someone worth knowing. For years it was in vain. Her parents held her soul in a box, taped closed with a shipping label to Depression. There it'd sit until January, taking a plane ticket funded off ignorant optimism, back to some sort of neutral land of existence...

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“How I finally Done my New Year's reselution.” by Damian Nowacki

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Hello, My name's Jacob and I'm the one writing the story, so my names will be 'me,I and my' because this is written in first person. So, let me start the story, wich is a adventure, So I should call it the How I finally Done my New Year's reselution Adventure story wich I will start just in the setence below: We were all sitting down in the assembly Hall. Our headteacher, Mrs.smulglop, who had a giant pointy sharp nose like one of those fished with swords on their nose, or are the swords THEIR nose? Anyhow, We were Back in School in Janaur...

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“Nail-Biter” by Story Time

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I stopped biting my nails by wearing gloves. I stopped biting my nails by wearing gloves taped to my hands, around my wrists, with duct tape, with the deep grey duct tape that you can only get at the hardware store, and as soon as I walked into the hardware store, the man behind the counter took one look at me and said-- “You need to stop biting your nails.” He offered to cut off my hands, but that seemed extreme to me, so I just asked for duct tape instead, and then I went back to the car, where my second wife taped the gloves we had ...

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“My last letter to you” by Surajit Pathak

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For five years now I have been trying to fulfil my New Years’ resolution. Every New Year I try to strengthen my resolve to complete my resolution but somehow I lacked the courage to do so. However, this year will be different. I have only one objective-This world has to hear me. It has ignored, ridiculed and molested me for many years and I spit on it for its cruelty towards me. The final countdown has begun. One hour until midnight. One hour until I fulfil my long standing New Years’ resolution. One hour until death. A hallowed existence ...

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“Not a Resolution” by Alexandria Carroll

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CJ always loved being active. She had long, bright red hair, green eyes, and she was tall with an athletic build. When CJ was 12 years old, her friend Amy pulled her into the bathroom and offered her a cigarette. “You know what this is called, right?” She said as she put the cigarette in her mouth. “A puff?” Amy shook her head. “It’s called a drag.” She said as she lugged her feet across the floor. “You should try it.” CJ tilted her head to the side and plucked the cigarette from Amy’s fingers. She shrugged and took a drag. The young woma...

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Write about someone who has finally managed to succeed at a long-standing New Year’s resolution.

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✍️ 98 stories

“FINALLY!!!” by Agbesanwa Ayomide

“A Kaleidoscope of Memories” by Elizabeth Inkim

“Mental Loss” by Ann Layne

“Working Towards a Daunting New Year's Resolution” by Morgan Douglas

“RESOLVED RESOLUTION” by Aiden Chu

“To all the girls I loved before...” by B. Webber

“The Early Bird ” by Kumbi Chitenderu

“RESOLVE AND OUTCOME” by Sivaram Govindaraj

“The Outpost” by Cody Mitchell

“The frog eat it” by Faith Afolabi

“Pilot” by Chris D

“How I finally Done my New Year's reselution.” by Damian Nowacki

“Nail-Biter” by Story Time

“My last letter to you” by Surajit Pathak

“Not a Resolution” by Alexandria Carroll

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