The whole world has been teaching me to be kind, to make sacrifices, to give selflessly.
When a classmate faced hardship, the entire class pressured me to give everything I had.
When a relative fell on hard times, my whole family demanded I drop out and bail them out.
When a stranger played the victim, the whole internet pressured me to give them money for free.
Everyone was spending my generosity for me, using my life to feed their own sense of moral superiority.
I used to give in because I was softhearted. All I got in return was people taking more and more, exploiting me without end.
Until that day, when I finally woke up.
I wouldn’t help, lend money, make sacrifices, or bail anyone out.
The whole internet condemned me as cold and selfish, asking if Lin Xing would ever wake up.
But when the truth came to light, everyone who had stood on the moral high ground to judge me
finally realized:
I was the only one who had been awake all along.
My name is Lin Xing. Xing, as in “awake.”
This time, I woke up for myself.
