The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.

