Happy New Year 2026

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come, and we have only today, so let us begin.”
— Mother Teresa

The first day of a new year carries a unique kind of quiet power. It arrives softly, without spectacle, yet weighted with expectation. Calendars turn, clocks reset, and we are invited—almost compelled—to think about change. We look back on the year that has passed and forward to the one that lies ahead. Regrets surface, hopes stir, and resolutions are drafted. Yet Mother Teresa’s words gently pull us back from both directions and root us in the only place where real life happens: today.

Yesterday, for all its lessons, is finished. The successes cannot be relived, and the mistakes cannot be undone. No matter how tightly we hold onto them—through nostalgia, guilt, or longing—they belong to a chapter already closed.

Likewise, tomorrow, despite all our plans and promises, remains uncertain. It has not yet arrived, and it is not guaranteed. On this first day of the year, it is tempting to live everywhere except the present: replaying what we wish had gone differently, or imagining a future version of ourselves who has everything figured out. Mother Teresa reminds us that both impulses quietly steal our attention from the only moment that truly belongs to us.

Today is where beginnings actually occur.

The new year does not demand a finished version of you. It asks only for your presence. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. And so, here—on this first, ordinary, precious day—let us begin.