Veganuary, Dryuary, Giveupuary – Why Is January So Boring?

Every year, society & social media becomes obsessed with quitting something in this chilly month, it’s a weird one for me.

I stopped bothering with new years resolutions and all the other stupid rubbish that comes around every 1st January, it does my nut in.

Why do folks not realise they’re setting themselves up to fail.

What’s even more comical is that most people do it for no real reason.

Take the latest craze that hit our ruddy Facebook walls this week. Veganuary.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for Veganism, and have tried a few times over the years to convert to it, but I seem to fail every time. Why?

Probably my other half to be honest, she is a total carnivore, and has no intention of being any other way.

But to be honest, chances are even if I went on a vegan holiday I’d end up falling off the horse more than once.

It’s will power to the largest degree, but also just being set in my ways.

Eggs for breaky, something meaty for tea, with something cheesy for lunch, It’s the way I fuel myself most days.

I think if suddenly farming stopped and everyone suddenly went vegan i’d be fine, running along with the rest of society, and that’s the problem.

All these folks that think they won’t accidentally have something non vegan have got another thing coming, society uses animals for everything so its hard to avoid. Most of them won’t have realised they have to change their entire wardrobe for Veganuary either. Newsflash your clothes are made from dead animals!

However, to true, full time vegans – I salute you, and I wish I could do what you do #respect #maybeoneday

It’s not just the vegan thing though, people quitting drinking for a month too, why bother? You hammered it at Xmas and New Year – the damage is done already! And the moment Feb 1st hits you are already planning a night on the lash! This is the worst kind of drinking – binge drinking.

After cleansing yourself in January you will feel like poop in February!

I did four months off the booze up until my son was born – based on the fear that I may need to rush my wife into hospital at any moment, and honestly, it felt no better than reasonable by the end. And the day after we brought him home, what did we do, cracked open the champers of course, which we didn’t really enjoy. The wife more than me, she’d been off it for almost a year so I’ll let her off!

But there was a valid reason for my abstinence. It wasn’t just because ‘someone posted on Facebook’

Since then, aside from our office Christmas bash, I have continued to drink, but in much smaller quantities.

After work now I’ll treat myself to a little whisky, or a G&T, and if I go down the boozer I’ve had enough after a couple of pints.

Once you get to the stage of limitation, and actually enjoying the drink for what it’s there for, taste, not to get p***ed, then you realise there is no need for these daft schemes in January.

Everything in moderation people.

So for everyone reading that has woken up to a breakfast of fruit and more fruit, I’m off to cook myself a nice bacon omelette, and although I’m generally a black coffee man, I might even consider one of these stupid vanilla lattes to accompany it, after all, someone has to keep the farmers in business and stop the country falling apart this month haven’t they….

Oh if anyone fancies booking a cruise this month by the way, prices are brilliant and it’s sale time, so pick up your phone and get calling me!

Hope your New Years have started well and as always, thanks for reading, and until next time!