No one is an NPC. yuh
There’s a very popular narrative being tossed around in the spiritual community: “You aren’t arguing with people, but rather with frequency.”
We all know how that goes. Someone pisses you off one fine day. They disrespect you, lash their shortcomings onto you with no sincerity, no tact, no consideration, and no remorse. But that’s forgivable, right? They aren’t conscious of the way they are programmed to be, hence their misconduct isn’t intentional. You have no proof of intent. Let it slide, and be the bigger person, will you?
Absolutely fucking not.
Because I refuse to see people through such a dehumanised lens for the sake of convenience. To see someone as incapable of conducting themselves with grace in their interactions with others only means one thing to me: we have somehow patronised their ability to adapt socially into decent, civilised people.
And this approach inadvertently puts unnecessary weight on the backs of empaths, social workers, emotionally intelligent people — those people, us, if you see yourself in this crowd. Because why would we want to carry the weight we didn’t cause? We are participants in the system just like they are; we are not the system itself, and let’s not forget that. The weight should never be ours alone.
It cripples us in so many ways; a major disservice to mankind in a single stroke of complacency. It creates an army of entitled losers and bitter intellectuals — I’m doing my best at archetyping here. All I see is an endless war between people who expect endless coddling and entry into rooms despite their ugly behaviours and lack of talent, and tired, tired responsible people with upright morals and intellectual integrity who take the fall over and over again.
Its evil lies in the unnameable.
I’d like to think everyone can participate in basic decency. It shouldn’t be a luxury, and I think it’s foolish to push the notion that one can’t afford to be decent just because they are trying to make ends meet.
How depressing is it to simply accept that there are NPCs among humans, especially as an empathetic and spiritually attuned person? I most certainly don’t need this narrative to feel more special about myself. And no more unpaid emotional labour please please fucking please.
Let others be the people they can be. We are in this together. This is my urgent call to dismantle that nasty beast called tolerance.
Because if your spirituality requires me to excuse every harm as “frequency,” then maybe what you call enlightenment is just cowardice with incense burning in the background.
And if you insist on carrying on this nasty, masochistic-ass dynamic because you are just that obsessed with being seen as nice, then carry on. Just don’t drag others into this mess. Peace.
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