48. The System’s Chains

The System’s Chains

We are born inside the system,
chains invisible but heavy,
like cold hands on a newborn’s shoulders.
From the first breath they teach us the alphabet of captivity:
work, earn, consume, obey.

The system whispers:
the more you have – the better you are.
Digits in your account become your pulse,
taxes your leash,
status a false light flickering in the eyes of other prisoners.

But sometimes, late at night,
I feel another truth pressing at my ribs:
the more you possess, the heavier your shadow.
The more you pay, the more you feed a machine
that never loves you back.
It hugs you with credit, kisses you with rewards,
until you forget it is a cage built of velvet bars.

And yet… the truth still murmurs inside us:
not wealth, but peace makes us free.
Not status, but the courage to be ourselves.

✨ Wake up.
There will never be a better time than now.

🌿 How to wake up?

• Ask yourself: is what I do today truly mine?
• Learn to say “enough” to whatever steals your peace, even if the system calls it “normal.”
• Take back your time: one hour of silence is richer than a thousand coins.
• Choose less in things, but more in what nourishes the soul.
• Remember: your worth does not rise or fall with taxes or digits in an account —
  • You were born already priceless.

To wake up is to stop measuring life in the currency of the system
and begin to measure it in the breaths of the soul.