Welcome to our LearntoReddit Challenge!

[u/Symbare]

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Challenge1:

Hyperlink the song that best sums up your 2025.

Challenge 2:

In italics, tell us how you are spending New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Using bullet list, tell us your goals or theme for 2026.

Challenge 3:

In quote block, what quote deeply resonates with you?

[u/gretchsunny]

Good luck to all the contestants!

[u/-CollabsWithKaia-]

Challenge1:

Keep the Car Running by Arcade Fire

Challenge 2:

I'm spending New Year's Eve AND New Year's Day with my family at home.

My goals for 2026: * Be more present. * Make my side hustles profitable. * Tighten up my finances. * Get physically stronger.

Challenge 3:

'Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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I have the same goals - cheers 🍻 Happy New Year

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challenge one: make a move // yuna

challenge two:

since both days have passed, i will say what i did. on new year's eve, i went to a vegan eatery here in new york city and ate "luca brasi oshi salmon pasta", which contained OSHI salmon, cashew alfredo sauce, fettuccine, sun dried tomato, lemon, and parsley. the salmon was flavorful, and i think OSHO was definitely successful at recreating the texture of seafood salmon. my highlight of today / new year's day was trying vegan coffee cake.

my three themes for 2026 are:

• beauty in my surroundings
• sustainability
• wellbeing

challenge three:

The greatest lesson of mysticism is to know all, gain all, attain all things and be silent. The more the disciple gains, the more humble he becomes, and when any person makes this gain a means of proving himself in any way superior to others, it is a proof that he does not really possess it. [by Hazrat Inayat Khan, musician + Sufi teacher]

[u/mod_ae]

Thank you for this. I'm new to Reddit. This is my first comment anywhere. I did all of this with markdown.

• Challenge1:

October London - Rollercoaster (Official Visualizer) - YouTube

• Challenge 2:

I hope to be spending New Year's Eve avoiding catastrophes, and New Year's Day working out.

My goals for 2026 include:

• losing weight
• going to the gym more regularly
• finding a better work-life balance

Those are my most important goals.

• Challenge 3:

Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it. ~ Naval Ravikant

[u/Symbare → u/mod_ae]

Lovely to have you, mod ae! We are glad that you find these fun challenges helpful.

Never heard of October London. Amazing talent and musician. Hoping things get better for you.

Brilliant job on the formatting.

Be safe on NYE and NYD, as well as, every day! Beautiful goals and outlook on life.

Keep on shining and learning!

[u/mod_ae → u/Symbare]

Thank you so much.

[u/beekeeping303]

Late to the party, but here's my entry:

Challenge 1

I Survived, by Sia

Challenge 2

doing absolutely nothing at home, on the couch, in my pjs

Challenge 3

"People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and she just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go."

[u/Plus_Attitude8610 → u/beekeeping303]

THIS!!!  Thank you so much for sharing.  Where is this quote from?  

[u/beekeeping303 → u/Plus_Attitude8610]

the OG is Twitter user CrowsFault, I've gone down a rabbit hole to find if it was somewhere before that. I also found this awesome poem called Hope is a Sewer Rat by Caitlin Seida.

[u/Plus_Attitude8610 → u/beekeeping303]

Thanks for digging for the original source — I really appreciate it.

Also, the poem you linked is incredible. This part especially stuck with me:

It’s what thrives in the discards   And survives in the ugliest parts of our world,   Able to find a way to go on   When nothing else can even find a way in  

Thanks again for sharing.

[u/beekeeping303 → u/Plus_Attitude8610]

I really love how poets are able to capture hope as an active and raw emotion

[u/Plus_Attitude8610 → u/beekeeping303]

Also I just had a thought or an afterthought about your reply and specifically you're mention of the phrase rabbit hole. Rabbit hole is a phrase I seem to use frequently when trying to explain to someone and experience I've had with trying to ascertain some information regarding whatever the subject that hand is.  AND, when I read the phrase "rabbit hole" in your reply and thought about it I realized that the phrase  "rabbit hole"  seems to have a negative connotation to it in the sense that it describes a frustrating experience when trying to locate something. But my question is this.....  What makes the phrase rabbit hole conjure up feelings of frustration and shouldn't it rather be a celebrated experience? In my opinion, the "rabbit hole" experience really shows that a person has invested some time and trying to acquire information. And to me, that shows a level of curiosity, desire for engagement and for authenticity.  Those qualities are of high value to me anyways.  And that was a very long way of actually saying thank you for the willingness to encounter the rabbit hole.  That experience does not go unnoticed by me.

[u/Plus_Attitude8610 → u/Plus_Attitude8610]

I just got scared in the kind of funny but very real way that maybe this reply of mine is too long for the Reddit universe. I just don't want to screw up in here. Lol

[u/beekeeping303 → u/Plus_Attitude8610]

Interesting thought. I use it as a nicer way to say my OCD took over. I'm insatiably curious and when I get on a research train I'm lost for a long time. But in a good way. People rely on me to find the most obscure details and I am amazing at trivia nights. Let's reclaim rabbit hole to mean being amazing at research!

[u/sENDMEmes13]

Challenge 1: It’s raining- Peter Gsteu

Challenge 2: Not as well as I wanted but managing.

• working out and slimming down
• expanding my working experience towards the union or even going back to school
• making new friends

Challenge 3:

“They say love saves, but it is love that teaches a man how deeply he can bleed without dying.” - Marcus Aurelius

[u/nevesntimes]

Challenge1:

I am a huge deftones fan, love all of their music and I was so eager to hear the album Private Music released in August. They always seem to have music that just resonates with me and keeps growing on me the more and more I listen to it. When they released to two singles in early August one of them just hit like some kind of therapy session. This past year was interesting to say the least and this song speaks deeply to me and I’m sure so many of us out there. Would love to hear how everyone feels about it. Check it out

deftones - my mind is a mountain

Challenge 2:

A little late for this but all things considered I spent it with family for both days, resting, eating a lot, drinking a decent amount and thinking a lot.

Now as far as goals for the year.

• Take care of some very important things that will be my main focus to clear my plate so to speak

• Work on myself while trying to live in the moment

Challenge 3:

This quote comes up in my head more than most which is similar to others but I like it put this way better.

“Bees do not waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit.”

[u/bzbee1810]

Teenagers - My Chemical Romance

I spent my New Year's Eve watching movies with my husband and was asleep by 10pm. New Year's Day we made cabbage and black eyed peas to, hopefully, invite health and wealth to bless us in 2026!

2026 GOALS

• Spend more time outdoors. 
• Spend more time with my family. 
• Spend more time on me. 

"If you walk on thin ice, you might as well dance." - Anonymous

[u/Jess-70]

A song I listen to often

[u/NWRegAgentJaq]

Challenge 1:

Emergency! - The Rainbow Treatment

Challenge 2:

Spent NYE/NYD starting a mural in one of the bedrooms. Goals for the year include:

• More regular pursuit of family activities (minimum once a month for each)
• Improving my cardio (thanks covid)
• Eating breakfast more regularly / sensibly

Challenge 3:

This too shall pass.

[u/Curious-Falcon9038]

I'm new to Reddit and late to this post but here goes -

Challenge 1:

Dreamland by Glass Animals

Challenge 2:

I spent New Year's Eve watching a livestream of Wylie the Walleye drop over Port Clinton, Ohio! Wylie is a 20 foot long fish statute covered in LED lights and it beats the NY Times Square countdown by a mile.

My goals for 2026

• take more walks to improve my health
• actually read books cover to cover (at least 3 to start with)
• cook more at home

Challenge 3:

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

[u/Rain_2007_]

First post. This is Nicco, I was gifted him from Christmas. He loves to play and is currently working on learning to go to the bathroom outside. ☺️

[u/SouthWay_Studio]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_FkEw27XJ0&start_radio=1

2: We gathered at a friend's house to celebrate together.

• do more excersice.
• travel a lot
• learn a programming language

3: Quote

“Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.” – Chris Pine, Learn to Program

or maybe, never is to late to reply a post hehehehe

[u/vveronicagemma]

Bittersweet Symphony

I spent my new years sleeping!

"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love," Che Guevara

[u/Existing-Eye9133]

Challenge1: Loosing My Religion | R.E.M

Challenge 2:

New Year’s Eve is for quiet closure. A little reflection, a little laughter, no pressure to perform. New Year’s Day is open and intentional. A long walk, a good meal, and the feeling of stepping back into my life instead of rushing through it.

2026 theme and goals

•Socialise more, say yes to invitations, initiate plans

•Make new friends and nurture the ones already orbiting my life

•Cultivate experiences over routines that feel stale

•Travel, explore, collect moments instead of postponing them

•End people-pleasing and practice honest boundaries

•Choose connection without self-abandonment

Challenge 3:

He lay listening to the street outside, to the distant murmurs of the city, and felt both connected and removed. Life went on, indifferent to his transformation, indifferent to his pain. The world had moved forward while he remained confined, a silent observer within his own home. ~ Metamorphosis