Alright, Happy New Year 2026, my friends 🎉✨
Let’s start the year with a punchy thought: even the brightest minds cling to things they can’t verify. And no — it’s not stupidity, ignorance, or lack of critical thinking. It’s something far more human, far more stubborn, and far more fascinating.
Smart people believe unprovable things because the world is bigger than logic alone. Full stop.
Some call it intuition. Some call it culture. Some call it faith. Some call it “my friend forwarded this on WhatsApp, so must be real lah”. Humans are weird like that — and beautifully so.
The Brain Loves Patterns, Even When The Patterns aren’t Real
Highly educated or not, the brain is basically a pattern-detecting machine on steroids. It sees shapes in clouds, “signs” in coincidences, and hidden meaning in completely random noise.
Algorithms do the same thing. Try running a neural net on static — suddenly it starts hallucinating dogs, faces, and forests. Our mind works with the same glitchy firmware.
And because of that firmware, even the smartest people fall for:
- Astrology apps with better UI than scientific journals
- Motivational quotes pretending to be scientific laws
- The idea that angel numbers mean the universe is texting you
- Conspiracy threads with more drama than Dune
We evolved to connect dots — even when the dots never met.
The Comfort of Believing Something Bigger Than Yourself
Humans need meaning like plants need sunlight. Too little, and we start to wilt. Faith fills that gap — and I’m not talking about one religion. All the major faiths offer some form of purpose:
- Christianity talks about love and grace
- Islam about compassion and divine order
- Buddhism about liberation from suffering
- Hinduism about cosmic cycles
- Taoism about balance
- Sikhism about unity and service
Different paths. Same deep human hunger.
Even atheists have belief systems. Call it humanism. Call it cosmic awe. Call it “the universe has vibes”. Everyone believes something.
Logic Cracks Under Emotional Weight
You can have a PhD and still pray before a flight.
You can be a surgeon and still carry a lucky charm.
You can be a professor and still read your horoscope “just to see”.
People say belief is irrational. I say belief is instinct.
Smart people don’t escape emotion; they just intellectualise it with better vocabulary.
Identity Needs Stories, Not Spreadsheets
Identity isn’t built from facts — it’s built from narrative.
And narratives need mystery, myth, symbolism, and a touch of spiritual spice.
It’s why Malaysians say “rezeki”, “karma”, “blessings”, “feng shui”, “energy”, “the universe is signalling”.
It’s why every culture has rituals.
It’s why every civilisation tells creation stories.
Your education upgrades your tools. It doesn’t rewrite your roots.
And Maybe… Believing The Unprovable Isn’t a flaw at all
What’s life without wonder?
Without imagination?
Without the possibility of something beyond our sensors?
If we strip away every unprovable belief, we also strip away:
- Art
- Hope
- Love
- Optimism
- Ritual
- Courage
- and Half the plot of every sci-fi movie we love
Even science needs imagination. Einstein literally said his greatest tool was fantasy. Every breakthrough starts with a belief that something unseen might be true.
The Trick is Balance — Not Blind Faith or Blind Scepticism
Believe what nourishes you.
Question what manipulates you.
Hold space for mystery, but don’t let the mystery eat your brain.
You can light incense and read research papers.
You can meditate and run experiments.
You can pray and update your firmware.
Humans are multiverse creatures.
We run logic and myth in parallel.
And the system crashes when we kill either one.
Happy New Year — Believe Boldly, Question Bravely 🚀✨
Whether you believe in God, the universe, karma, destiny, energy, synchronicity, or simply the magic of being alive — carry it into 2026 with confidence.
Just don’t let TikTok “healers” convince you to drink boiled onion water for enlightenment. XAXAXA.
References
- Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer – Fallacy Detective
- Are You Seeing Patterns That Don’t Exist? – Psychology Today
- Attitudes toward spirituality and religion – Pew Research Center
- Why so many people believe conspiracy theories – BBC World
This is honestly my favourite thing to dive into, so stay tuned — the follow-up article is coming, and it’s going to hit even harder. XAXAXA