New Year!!

Why is it we have to have a New Year's resolution?
I have always tried to figure out what the meaning and the purpose is behind this. I always say I am going to make a New Year's resolution and I never do. I hear of all these people doing this an in a month after the Newness wears off from the new year people give up, things are forgotten and the regular routine is back in place.
I have no desire to put that much pressure on myself to have to make this goal. I feel like I would be failing if something was to get in the way of my progress. I guess you would call it lazy but I don't want to be disappointed if I do not succeed. Maybe I set to great of expectations for the reality of the resolution to manifest itself.
I defiantly want to loose weight but I cant seem to get motivated and I don't think a resolution will put a fire under my butt. I will have to have something catastrophic to happen to make me want to change. I do have to say I am going to start slow and change my eating habits and then I will get the exercise routine in place. Baby steps are what it is going to take for me to put in a change.