You are loved. That’s true. But you’re also part of a chain (biological, historical, economic) that didn’t begin with you and won’t end with you. Every moment of your life is backed by someone else’s cost. Food, roads, code, culture. None of it is free. Not even you.
That doesn’t diminish your value. It defines it.
Because now it’s your turn.
Your value isn’t something to prove. it’s something to use. You don’t owe the world obedience. You owe it honesty. Contribution. Presence. If you feel the weight of existence, good. That means you’re awake.
So live as if it matters. Because it does. Not because you’re exceptional, but because you’re participating.
You were handed a life with no user manual and a debt you never asked for. The only intelligent response is to pay forward what was paid in. Not to everyone. Just to what matters.
Let others sleep in delusion or self-pity. You don’t have to.
Focus. Build. Pay. Create. Not because you’re forced to, but because it’s what the conscious choose to do when they understand what life really costs.
GN #Nostr
