New Year’s Resolutions are a popular trend in the United States; each year, 41 percent of the population promises to do something different in the new year. Now, that does not mean that they keep those resolutions. In fact, on average, of the people that create A New Year’s resolution, only 9.2 percent of people feel that they have accomplished their resolution when the next new year comes around. Quite a few of these lists of resolutions include trying to lose weight; they may also include trying to eat healthier. In the small town of Lotterdale, Kentucky, Caleb Johansen was one of these people who desperately hoped to lose weight by the end of the year and like many sluggard people, this had been his resolution last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. Nonetheless, this year he resolved one more time and felt determined to lose the extra weight that he had been packing for years. In fact, that’s what he did, the morning of New
Then he decided that since he had a little over an hour until he needed to report back to work, that he would go for a bike ride. Even though he had not been on a bike in what seemed to be decades, but he thought how difficult could it be? As a matter of fact, they say you never forget how to ride a bike once you learn. In consternation, Caleb hoped that that was true as he went to grab his workout gear. However, he looked all around his closet, in every nook and cranny, but could not seem to find his sneakers; but grant it, he had not worn his sneakers in years and they had had their fair share of negligence. Finally, after what seemed to be hours, he found the blue and silver sneakers stashed in a corner of his immense closet. Although they were covered in filth and seemed to be at least a size and a half too small, they were all he had, so he jammed his feet into them and headed for the