Opting out is NOT failure. For those of you unacquainted with solitude there is a quiet fear attached to disappearing. Not vanishing completely - just becoming less... visible. This means posting less. Explaining less. Watching others announce themselves while you remain still. Watching. Waiting.
Modern belief systems interpret diminished public visibility as a loss. If no one sees it, then perhaps it didn’t happen. If it doesn’t perform, it likely doesn’t count. If it isn’t shared, it must not be important and while opting out can feel like giving up, much of that impression assumes that the system you’re stepping back from was ever interested to begin with.
Despite what we've been told, visibility isn’t free. It demands performance, consistency, and a version of ourselves that can be easily understood at a glance. It rewards repetition more than depth and posturing more than honesty. Over time, we stop asking whether something matters and start asking whether or not others will like it. This is a mistake.
It is important to understand that opting out is NOT a failure. It’s a refusal. Refusal to convert everything into a post, a story or a reel. Refusal to narrate our lives to an inattentive audience and a refusal to trade your actual worth in real time for digital likes. This is a refusal to confuse social attention with personal progress.
Some things are better without critique and or commentary. Some decisions make more sense when they aren’t announced. Some work only survives when it isn’t interrupted by applause. Fame is a deceptive foe and it knows us well.
The hardest part isn’t being unseen. It’s trusting that what you’re doing still counts without social proof. That's where Fake Moon continues to shine in the darkness... We are visible to those who see and don't need the constant confirmation that we in fact do exist.
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