Save Yourself, Save Humanity

If you feel like the world we live in is in absolute turmoil, you’re not alone. It’s no secret that we’re living in a dark time. But it’s not a traditional evil we face. It’s not like the stories of old, where the heroes can take up arms and ride into battle against the unnamed darkness that threatens humanity. It’s a deeper issue, a sickness growing deep within each of us, like a cancer.

At some point along the line we have lost ourselves. We started trading long term fulfilment for momentary gain. We’ve swapped love for lust, loyalty for distrust, hard work for keeping options open, morals for moaning, values for validation, and elevation for excuses.

We bitch and we moan. We attack each other. We segregate and suppress. We pitch everyone against each other from races to genders to sexual orientations. We battle it out as if any good will come of it at all, all the while spiralling downwards into the bottomless pit. Social media is an infection that has spread to the deepest cells of our hearts and minds, fuelling this fire, and we have simply fallen under its curse. WE, truly, are the problem.

Sadly, we live in a world where people will spend hundreds of pounds per month in support of large corporations that they then shout at for having all the money—think alcohol, Coca-cola, McDonalds, Amazon—and hour upon hour staring at a screen while their bodies and minds rot into a steaming pile of gloop.

All the while gym memberships, books, art, and healthy living are deemed as overly expensive and impossible to warrant. They’ll spend £45 on a canvas from Next but ask their talented friend to design them ‘just a small tattoo’ without the expectation of cost.

They ignore their friends running small businesses, fight among themselves, choose supermarkets over local farmers, and blame everyone else for the state of their economy.

The fact that some of us still fight for a world so lost and warped is nothing short of miraculous, and potentially even foolish. But birds tweet because they’re birds, cats hunt because they’re cats, and those committed to helping create happier lives are stuck trying to chip away at that brick wall with a hammer and chisel until they get through.

But if you feel like you have it in you, I believe I may have a solution.

In this age, if you truly want to save what’s left of the world, of the soul of humanity, you need to take up arms against yourself. Stand alone, become the outcast, and accept the burden for what it is.

You will be different. You will be mocked. You will become a target for others to point at and attack, grasped and gripped by all manner of temptations attempting to drag you back down toward darkness. But continue to head toward the light, and then simply exist there.

Forge your values in iron, carve your morals in stone. Educate yourself, become strong and wise. Do not falter. Embrace the loneliness of the journey, and battle back the coercive voice that has you wrapped in its comforting tendrils.

And you will find yourself on a lonely road, I can promise you that. To stand apart from the masses means to isolate yourself against them, to ditch everything about your life up until this point, to become a point of contrast in an endless sea of broken people suppressing themselves from their true potential and desires. It will be painful, and difficult, but you can make it.

Exit this rat-race. Unplug from this matrix. Get strong, get fit, knock the booze on the head, switch off the news, walk in nature, and focus more on what you have than what you want. Love and respect your partner, if you have one, and stay single until you are truly ready to move on if you don’t. Share your friend’s business posts, tip the artists that create something you enjoy. Be the fucking weird one. The one that doesn’t jump from partner to partner. The one that doesn’t rebound into drunken snogs only to be back with their partner the next day. Be the one that has a moral code and sticks to it. The one that respects themselves. Be the one that has a clear set of values and doesn’t falter in them.

I’m no longer afraid to openly stand in opposition to this absolute craziness, however lonely, poor, and hard that path may be. People will respect your value or they won’t. But the one person who should despite all else, is yourself.

Don’t compromise who you are because it changes how others see you. Be sober, be poor, be ‘boring,’ be lonely. The only thing you need to be, is you. I promise you, eventually, you will find your tribe. Or build your own. It’s just how it works.

So in conclusion, become the hero of your own story… and you may just yet become the hero of humanity.

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