The Price of Fragility

We live in an era where consumption isn’t just encouraged — it’s demanded. We are bombarded every day with products, content, distractions. We’ve been taught that to be happy, we simply need to buy something new, watch another show, consume one more ready-made experience. And without realizing it, we’ve drifted away from our true nature: to create, to think, to question.The result is everywhere. We are increasingly anxious, depressed, and apathetic. We've lost the spark in our eyes because we stopped building something that is truly ours, something that is born from within. Creativity — the vital spark of human existence — is being suffocated by the ease of prepackaged experiences. We’ve stopped imagining. We’ve stopped dreaming. We’ve become addicted to receiving, incapable of producing.

And that has made us weaker, more fragile — and yes, less intelligent. Intelligence is not preserved by passive information intake alone; it requires challenge, construction, invention. When we settle for mere consumption, we become a generation of lazy minds — minds that accept without questioning, that repeat without understanding, that forget how to shape the world around them.Consumerism is the new drug: it offers immediate relief but slowly eats away at our ability to be more than mere spectators of life.

And the damage doesn’t stop there. Excessive consumption has trained us for instant gratification — and with that, it has made us emotionally fragile. We have lost our ability to handle waiting, frustration, and discomfort. We have been conditioned to believe that everything we desire must be just one click away, and any obstacle is perceived as a personal attack.

That’s why so many people today can’t handle a simple "no." Rejection, once a natural part of life, has become unbearable. A disapproving look, a critique, a closed door — everything is now seen as an intolerable assault. We are raising entire generations who can no longer cope with being contradicted, who confuse opinion with aggression, who expect to be validated at all times without effort, without merit, without reflection.

This emotional fragility is directly tied to what consumerism has done to our minds. When everything is designed to please us and keep us comfortable, we forget that growth is painful. True creativity, the kind that transforms and endures, does not survive in a world where comfort and validation are mandatory.

We are becoming sick. Minds that are never tested grow lazy. Hearts that cannot endure rejection will never be strong enough to achieve anything extraordinary. Without the courage to hear "no" and keep moving forward, we remain trapped in a perpetual cycle of passive consumption, feeding only our insecurities — not our strength.

If we want to reclaim our humanity, we must urgently relearn how to endure discomfort. To create despite criticism. To move forward despite rejection. To understand that being denied does not diminish us — it shapes us, strengthens us, makes us real.

To create is to resist.

To create is to survive.

And it must start with how we raise the next generations.

If we want a future that is less fragile, less dependent, and more alive, we must start teaching our children different values. Instead of shielding them from every frustration, we must allow them to experience discomfort, disappointment, and even failure. We must show them that not everything will come easily — and that this is not only normal but necessary.

Children should grow up knowing that rejection is not a reflection of their worth, but an invitation to become stronger. They should be encouraged to think critically, to build with their own hands, to question, to imagine.

Instead of rewarding only immediate success, we should celebrate perseverance, curiosity, and the courage to start over.

Raising creators, not just consumers, is the greatest act of love we can offer.

Because in a world that tries to make them passive, teaching a child to create — to resist, to believe in their own capacity — is a true revolution.

Sometimes I feel suffocated when I hear people saying nonsense about excessive consumption, as if it were human nature to consume everything, all the time.

It’s not!

This behavior is imposed and forced into our minds, with the sole intention of keeping the wild machine of capitalism running — where only the tiny 1% who rule the world truly profit.

And opening people’s eyes to this slavery is becoming harder every day.

It’s a form of voluntary servitude.