The Discipline of Not Paying the Cost of Kindness Tonight

【Genre】Discipline

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July 8. Wednesday night. 10 p.m.

With an exhausted mind, you stare at your smartphone, wondering how to reply to messages from others.

You unconsciously find yourself reacting to someone’s emotions scrolling through your timeline.

“I have to be a good person.”

“I have to meet other people’s expectations.”

Even though your own energy is already significantly drained,

why do we continue to be so considerate of others?

Modern society demands excessive connection and empathy from us.

However, the “kindness” we offer to others is never free.

It is a real cost paid by draining your precious physical and mental energy.

Tonight, when your life gauge is already quite low, continuing to pay that cost for others is nothing more than a system error.

Therefore, the discipline to be carried out on this Wednesday night is this:

Stop caring about other people’s eyes and decisively cut the cost of “kindness.”

You don’t need to reply to anyone’s messages.

You don’t need to engage with other people’s gloom.

Turn off your smartphone and completely shut the window to others.

Choose cold isolation and build your own protective wall.

Kindness is a luxury item for those who have surplus.

What you need right now is not empathy for others, but thorough self-defense.

Temporarily log out other people’s existence from your mind, and in that unproductive silence, first and foremost protect your own dignity.

Akira’s One-Person Discipline affirms from the heart those of you who, on Wednesday night, chose not to pay the cost of kindness and instead chose to protect yourself.

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