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I might yap again on this one (as if I haven't already)
We are pretty desperate to be different this year, 2026. I am writing this as a tribute to the so-called 'new year, new me'.
Honestly, I don’t believe in 'new year, new me'. Like...Cut the crap, another day passed, and you have the urge to just be different? Why only on the New Year? Why don't you do it tomorrow? And the trend of listing things to achieve in that year, only to forget them the next day.
Let me ask, did it work last year?
This is because even one transformation could take more than a year or a known timeframe to finally be incorporated into our lives voluntarily. Reflect for a better life — not only a better year. Having a target is cool, what's not is setting it while neglecting your capacity. Our brain picks up a habit from the simplest form — so start small. Consistency over portion.
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What is a year, anyway?
Our obsession with time has quietly taught us limitations. We treat a year as a finish line, as if something ends when Earth completes one orbit around the Sun. Hawking once described time not as an independent thing, but as part of a four-dimensional spacetime, something that emerged with the universe itself, not something ticking away for our sake. The universe might simply exist, and because of our scale, we experience time the way we do.
It reminds me of that scene — I actually forgot in which movie, but I think it's in A Bug’s Life, when bugs face humans, and everything moves in slow motion. Maybe that's what applied to us as bugs in the universe filled with gigantic gases and enormous matter. We're merely existing in it.
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That sounds like it makes us irrelevant.
But maybe not.
We see important attributes in our life because that's what actually matters in it. We know what we know as what we know, and things we don't know will remain abstract for now. So saying we're irrelevant wasn't entirely true. We perceive our desired career path, beliefs, diet routine, and productive habits are important because that's just true.
Those seemingly nonsensical things reinforce our lives here. Maybe none of this matters to the universe. But it matters to us, because we only ever live in the present at our scale, in our bodies, in this moment.
So if you want to change for the better, do it now. If you want to get healthier, then make the change tonight, when you finally stop doomscrolling before sleep. Your dream is not irrelevant just because there's no title of '2026 Wishes' on it.
Your dream exists because you exist. Not because 5 was replaced by 6, and later 6 was replaced by 7, and so on.
Like I said, make it a lifetime wishlist — don't box yourself in an imaginary time setting. Because our brain is still the same, they’re still in the same model as before we slept on December 31. January 1st won't make us do anything better.
Like, good for you if you actually decide to finally make the shift on December 31, 2025 — on the New Year. What matters is quit the symbolic new year and start looking at the fundamental part of achieving. Nobody will look at your note app and praise your 2026 resolutions.
This isn't a motivational or a pessimistic take, simply me being fed up with that idea. Because it simply doesn't work. The only thing I waited for in the new year is spending time outside the house with people I love and eating yummy food. That's it. Not even the fireworks. To respect the new year is to stop acting as if a flip of a calendar will automatically change your life.
That said, I'm very much aligned with the concept of reflection. Reflect on what has happened and where you are now due to what you've done in the past. Make sure to look backward to do better. You will never know what to do next if you never evaluate what you've done wrong. Now what's right and wrong? Well, you'll define that one yourself.
new year, sure.
new you, idk you decide.
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