J's Musings

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

It is 2026 already, and the past year went by so quick; it ended before I got accustomed to writing 2025. I won’t write about my resolutions or reflections, because that’s too cliché. But then, breaking a cliché is also a cliché in itself.

I talk about cliches as though I didn’t stay up till 12 and try to time end of beginning perfectly for new years with my friends.

I read an article about how time is essentially continuous and thus never really resets, but we still treat New Years as an opportunity to start afresh. This, the article said, is a sign of human optimism.

I can’t help but agree, we humans are born optimistic. Every human on Earth is infiltrated by this wild untameable force. If one calls themselves a pessimist, but still sets an alarm for the next morning, and makes a to do list each evening; they have optimism. Because there is no guarantee they won’t die in their sleep, but they still set the alarm. Because there is hope, hope that they will wake up.

And to toast our insatiable need for optimism, we make plans. Plans for the new year, for our lives, for our children’s lives. But will we even be around to see all that. I mean, we hope we will be, but there is no other surety. At the end of the day, we run on hope, and that is undeniable.

The last year though, has made us all scared of hoping. What should have been a relief year became a lesson to some, a challenge to others, and a rough patch for everyone in general.

Maybe, this year can teach us to hope again and remind us what it means to be comfortable again. So, throw that hope into the universe and remind it, you are around and you are expecting wonderfulness.

My plans for this year are to get a planner, read, fix my academic habits and cook. Maybe I can take this year one day at a time. And in that way, bit by bit, make it much easier and happier.

Off to bake and make something yummy,

Janhavi<3