Resolutions?

Resolutions? Do you set resolutions? Mine take various forms I've had virtually the same one since 2000-something. It always sounds something like this: "Lighten my load," "Littler and lesser," "Do less." The sentiment is the same. This "less-ness" may well keep me busy for the rest of my days, which says something now doesn't it. I can keep myself quite occupied in my pursuit of LESS. 
In my pursuit of less, I've uncovered some truths, about myself at least. Our resolutions are often contrary to our life-stage. We strive to do more, be more, have more but the challenge of advancing years is to cull down to our essence, to transcend materialism, to discover and become our essential selves, to BEcome more of ourselves. 
Too often, from an early age, when asked what we want to BE as we get older we are really considering what we want to DO. Rarely, when posed the question "what do you want to BE?" do we respond, "I want to be kind." "I want to be creative." Rather, we respond with a job title or career label: "I want to be a dentist." "I want to be a ballerina." "I want to be a court psychologist for juvenile offenders."  It occurs to me that this is a very narrow perspective on the whole BEing thing. So narrowly defining our BEing can't be good. 
This is one of my favorite things about BEing a Gerontologist. To say, "I want to BE a Gerontologist" leaves you wide open to DO most anything!