You’re probably beginning to muse about what your New Year’s resolutions ought to be for 2024. They’ll most likely have to do with diet or exercise or other good habits that you feel you ought to do but aren’t particularly excited about.
We won’t lecture you about going to the gym or laying off the Pinot, although if you’ve had a look at local coverage of the health system lately, it does seem like a pretty smart idea.
This year, however, we urge you to think less about how you treat yourself and more about how you treat others.
The world changed in unforeseeable ways during the pandemic. Oddly, staying apart brought us closer together. We all had a reminder that shared sacrifice is usually worth it for the greater good. But the zeitgeist has changed since 2020, and while we are grateful that the public health crisis is over, tremendous other problems loom and we would argue, at the heart of the majority of them is a shortage of compassion for others.
Many studies have shown that one of the most surefire ways to increase your own happiness is to help someone else.
Our non-profits on the North Shore do tremendous work – more than we can possibly document in a year. As the ball descends on Dec. 31, enjoy your flute of bubbly, and resolve to help where you can.
Do this, and we believe it will truly be a happy new year for us all.
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