New Year's Eve Message 2026

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!

Ah, so far this year has sucked and since it's over, I guess I'm in the clear: 2025 sucked and perhaps that's because life in general sucks? Well, I don't know, but I do know this: steady as she goes. Indeed, steady as she goes. I have no intentions of changing myself or embracing someone else's truth. Not at all, because I see more clearly than ever now, that only I can forge my own path; only I can carve out my own destiny. Away with all that sentimental crap! I have no great promises to make and I've got no confessions to make, and I think that I too can say that I've got no enemies to curb. Indeed, I am complete in the sense that I am in a position where only I can decide for myself and while this provides me lots of freedom, it makes life that much harder and uncertain. Of course, freedom may be overrated, right? Only if you like daddy to tell you how to live, and indeed that's preferable for a lot of people. But hey no shame in that. No shame in that. I can't blame a man for trying and then sincerely saying to himself: fuck the world! Yes, sometimes I also just want to make the world go away. At any rate, these things are of course arbitrary and they don't really change anything, but it's daunting to think about the mass psychosis and the power of the mass psychosis. Yes indeed, we are our own worst enemies, and that's right in keeping with the teachings of the great Buddha, and the-Dharma-the-Sangha-the-Karma. But greatness may just appear, or really occur, at the intersections of uncertainty and delusion. After all, who can blame the novice for trying? Yes, you may have to, just a little bit at least, embrace the delusion, and that's okay. That's just okay.

Look, steady as she goes is my motto for 2026, and yes I truly feel that that's the only thing that makes sense for me. I've made a lot of great strides and I've improved myself a lot, and while the world's the same I don't have to accept and/or let the world define me. Yes, the world isn't a nice place, but as I stated this time last year: the world's never really been in a better position, materially. Yes, humanity keeps making great quantitative and material strides, and just as well, just as well. What else are these tropical apes supposed to do? HAHAHAHA! Anyways, I think that was it. I am really tired of fantastic and messianic ideas about the nature of man: humans suck and in the end we all have to find some way to cope with it, but at least it doesn't last forever. When you leave 2025 behind, just don't let the door hit you on your way out. Yeah, that's it. I'm done. Again, Happy New Year!

Sincerely,

— M. C. Dutt