Many mechanisms in this world fundamentally continuously drain people's energy: education, work, mortgage, marriage and childbirth, consumption, social expectations, constantly creating anxiety and desire, keeping people in a state of long-term exhaustion. Because a person who is chronically tired and driven by responsibility and fear is more easily pushed along rather than living according to what they truly want. But what is truly frightening is not these structures themselves, but that a person has never realized: whether their life is actively chosen or passively operated. Many people think they are pursuing stability, success, and dignity, but in reality, they are just being pushed forward by social clocks, family values, and consumer desires. The truly aware are not angrily denying everything, but begin to reclaim their subjectivity: not being overly controlled by desire, not easily driven by fear, maintaining strength, judgment, and the ability for long-term accumulation, gradually living as someone who is no longer easily pushed by external forces.

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