Why did the nervous resolution hide under the living room rug?
It wanted to break away early.
New Year's resolutions are notoriously fragile and often abandoned shortly after January begins. By stating that the resolution hid under a rug to break away, the riddle uses situational wordplay regarding how quickly most promises to ourselves are broken.
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