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Old Habits Die Hard
The new year is here and with it, a call to change your ways, become a better, brighter, shinier version of 2024 you. Every year the same words spoken, promises broken. Round and round we go. What’s your vice? Fast food habit? Social media addiction? Smoker? Slob? Gum-chewer? Party animal going cold turkey?
Whatever it is, we liked the old you better.
We’ve curated some of our favourite nihilistic images to celebrate your old ways. Feel inspired by artists and photographers picturing hedonism or habit, from Harley Weir, to Dead Hungry and John Yuyi [pictured right].
We’ve curated some of our favourite nihilistic images to celebrate your old ways. Feel inspired by artists and photographers picturing hedonism or habit, from Harley Weir, to Dead Hungry and John Yuyi [pictured right].
I don’t have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.
— Eubie Blake
“To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself. Sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. To go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. As for clothes, I think to buy good ones.”
[Virginia Woolf’s new years resolutions, 1931]
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back–in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
— Frederick Buechner
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