Online Chat: New Year Resolutions

The Annual Lie of a Better Self

2026 has arrived, broadcasting the same hopeful dream: that this is, alas, the year we become the poster boy of self-improvement. You hear the familiar mantra blasting in your head: Eat right. Sleep well. Work smart. Run like you're in a Nike ad. Care like Mother Teresa. Love like Jesus. Fuck like… well, you get the picture.

The plan is as grand as ever. The goal: to be the stock photo of happiness, serenity, success, altruism, and last but not least—fuckability.

But ask yourself this.

Are we seeing our New Year’s resolutions for what they truly are? Or are we rebuilding our sandcastle of good intentions on the familiar shore of contradictions—only to watch it get swept away, once more, by the indifferent tide of chaos we call life?

This Blue Moon🌜, let us dissect the What, Why and How of this beautiful but ridiculous annual rite:

• What gives us the urge to throw in the towel? Is it the third mile, the second kale smoothie, or the first mean-spirited person we encounter?
• Why do we routinely make plans we do not follow through? Do we keep shifting the goalposts? Are we dooming ourselves to repeat the same missteps?
• How do we deal with the curve balls, plot twists, and red herrings in our own hero's journey? Caffeine? Motivational posters? Or good old-fashioned self-sabotage just right before the climax of the third act?
• How do we tend to setbacks without surrendering? Journaling? Hot showers? A satisfying dump? Or everything, everywhere all at once? 🤢
• And for the brave, the bold, and the introspective: can a flaw truly ever become a feature as we journey deep into the inner desert of self-betterment?

Join us in body, spirit, or absence, as we examine all these questions under the microscope of self-dissolution.