My New Year’s resolution for 2015 is not going to be focused on eating healthier or to start going to the gym every day of the week or even to save more and spend less. Those challenges are easy compared with a goal I’m setting for myself.

In 2015, I’m going to stop texting while walking.

The realization that I may have a problem (along with a lot of other people) hit me smack in the face, literally, a few weeks ago when I was strolling through Kennedy International Airport, avoiding obstacles with my peripheral vision as I clambered out a text message. Without any warning (as I couldn’t actually see), I was involved in a head-on collision with another man who was also texting while walking.

The thud sent both of us off balance and we almost fell. As we both regained our footing, we looked at each other with a sense of disgust and embarrassment.

Adding to the poignancy of the incident was the realization that no one around us had seen our accident because, as I soon realized, they were walking and texting, too. If it weren’t for the gadgets in our hands, we might have looked like extras from “The Walking Dead.”