Silent resistance.
"The greatest resistance is not allowing our humanity to be taken away."
Not all resistance begins with a flag.
Not all struggles are loud.
Some are born when a person refuses to become what they are being forced to become.
The world today demands speed.
Instantaneity.
Efficiency.
Benefit.
It teaches that value can be measured, that a person is worth what they have, that time only counts when it makes money.
Silent resistance, on the other hand, is slow.
It listens.
Not because it has nothing to do, but because it knows that what we don't notice in time will eventually grow on us.
Attention is the first form of resistance.
When you listen to the other person, when you notice that they are tired, when you don't walk past them just because
no one is paying for it.
This is not weakness.
This is freedom.
Selflessness is not naivety.
It doesn't mean that we give everything.
It means that not all our decisions are guided by profit.
Because what we do only for profit can be taken away from us at any time.
But what we hold on to internally, we can't.
Patience today is rebellion.
Waiting.
A non-immediate response.
Thinking.
A system is strong when people are impatient.
Because an impatient person:
– is easily controlled,
– is easily scared,
– is easily turned against each other.
On the other hand, a patient person sees through.
And those who see through are no longer suitable for the crowd.
The problem is not the accumulation of material goods.
But when this becomes the only standard.
Because then:
– the relationship becomes a tool,
– time is a commodity,
– people are consumables.
Silent resistance, on the other hand, reminds us: not everything that is valuable can be sold.
Not everything that is important is visible.
And not everything that works is human.
True resistance does not destroy.
It does not hate.
It does not exclude.
It just remains human.
It listens when others are in a hurry.
It gives when others are counting.
It waits when others are demanding.
And says no when everyone nods.
This is not a revolution.
This is resistance.
And few may choose it.
But there is always enough to keep it from disappearing completely.
Because as long as there are those who do not sell their attention, do not exchange their conscience for comfort, and do not believe that this is all they are worth — the world has not lost itself.
This is silent resistance.
And this is what they cannot translate into an algorithm.
You do not have to go against everything.
You do not have to be loud.
You do not have to prove it.
It is enough to listen, to remain patient, to not exchange our conscience for comfort.
Selflessness, attention and slowness are not weakness today, but inner freedom.
And as long as this remains, there is something that cannot be controlled.
Silently.
But firmly.