Anjit Sharma:
Indian professionally a Software Engineer. A Biker at the heart, he believes that writing comes right from the soul. Being one of the topmost bloggers of India, he started blogging in 2008. He has written numerous poems, articles, book reviews and short stories, for his blog and other websites in the name of Crestless Wàve. Apart from writing, he is fond of capturing moments through his cell phone lens, making tunes on his guitar and pencil sketches.
August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your new year resolution for seven months and not doing it for next five.
It’s a wry, self-deprecating joke about how New Year’s resolutions fall apart. The math works out like this:
– January through July = 7 months of ‘not’ doing the resolution
– August through December = the remaining 5 months of the year
So the “gentle reminder” is really a backhanded one:
August marks the point past the halfway mark of the year, and the line is calling out that you’ve already blown off your resolution for over half of it — and, the joke implies, you’re probably going to keep blowing it off for the rest too. It belongs to a genre of humorous quotes poking fun at how resolutions are made with enthusiasm in January and abandoned almost immediately.
Origin:
I couldn’t trace this back to a specific book, article, or dated original source. It shows up widely across quote-aggregation sites (Goodreads, Pensador, and dozens of “welcome August” listicles), which suggests it originated online — likely as a social media post or quote-site submission — rather than in any published literary work. It seems to have caught on and spread through repetition across these sites, becoming one of the standard quotes trotted out every August.
Author:
It’s consistently credited to “Crestless Wave.” However, this doesn’t correspond to any known, established writer, poet, or public figure I could verify — no biography, other notable works, or background turned up. It reads more like a pen name or online handle than a traceable author, and it’s simply the attribution that stuck as the quote got copied from site to site. So treat it as “as commonly credited” rather than a verified authorship.
