New Year’s resolutions can make fools of us at the best of times. Yet 2020 saw even the most iron-willed among us fail to accomplish our goals.
Thanks to the pandemic, most people simply settled for trying to stay solvent and sane. Here, six writers reveal the resolutions they made this year, which now seem so naive.
I VOWED I WOULD MEET MY DREAM PARTNER.
by Emily Hill
I defy anyone to come up with a 2020 resolution that looks quite so ridiculous as mine.
With my rapidly decaying ovaries and my baby-mad brain, I was utterly intent on falling in love this year, and resolved to meet a man through work or friends.
Kyle Buchanan, The New York Times
Published: 27 Dec 2020 10:18 AM BdST
Updated: 27 Dec 2020 10:18 AM BdST The actress Carey Mulligan in London, Nov 29, 2020. Mulligan delivered the performance of her career in the dark comedy “Promising Young Woman” then came those with their tired views of women. (Danny Kasirye/The New York Times)
Not every Carey Mulligan movie begins with a Charli XCX song, but maybe more of them should. When “Promising Young Woman” deploys the 2017 pop bop “Boys” in its opening moments, it’s the first sign you’re about to get something from Mulligan that you’re not used to: namely, a contemporary setting.
In this Jan. 29, 2018 file photo, Chadwick Boseman, a cast member in Ma Rainey s Black Bottom and Black Panther, poses at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles. Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, has died of cancer. His representative says Boseman died Friday, Aug. 28, 2020 in Los Angeles after a four-year battle with colon cancer. He was 43. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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