The Cost of Remaining Human

The cruelest part doesnʼt begin when people openly hate you. It begins when they make you apologize for your very existence. For being too strong. Too caring. Too deeply affected by injustice. Too demanding of yourself and of the world. They call you difficult, aggressive, obsessive, inconvenient. They turn you into a monster just because you never learned how to walk past someone else’s suffering without caring. Just because you refuse to hide inside a small “normal life” where personal comfort is the highest goal and everything happening outside your door is treated as none of your concern. They want you to make yourself smaller. To speak more quietly. To feel less. To stop asking uncomfortable questions. To stop reminding them of the responsibility they work so hard not to see. They call your strength a problem because it exposes their weakness. They call your compassion fanaticism because, beside it, their passivity becomes impossible to ignore. They call your pain abnormal because acknowledging it would mean admitting that the world truly needs action, not another excuse. But you don’t owe anyone an apology for refusing to become indifferent. You are not a monster because you refuse to live as though nothing is happening. What is monstrous is a world where sensitivity is treated as weakness, conviction as danger, and convenient silence as normality. Don’t make yourself smaller so others can feel more comfortable. Don’t abandon your strength just because someone cannot face their own powerlessness. And don’t let anyone convince you that a life free of responsibility toward others is the only right way to live. You have the right to choose the harder path. You have the right not to accept what is wrong. You have the right to be inconvenient. You have the right to fight. You don’t owe the world a smaller version of yourself.

Chain

TEZOS

Network

Tezos

Contract

KT1XaCf6gkjFnKg3QmPfn6gep53moMvjkj1E

Token ID

38618