Even if you have every reason to do so and are completely excused and exonerated by society for becoming bitter due to your circumstance – it is still cowardice.

We all begin somewhat naive. There is a beautiful openness in this naiveté, a childlike wonder, magnificence and purity rarely found. Only utopia could safely foster the forever naive and utopia itself already announced the likelihood of existence in its name, meaning “nowhere” or “no-place”. It is not possible to remain forever naive nor is it a useful thing. It will leave you opened to encountering malevolence and crush you beyond belief. After we’ve been burned a few times we become more careful and understand the world is dipole of extreme beauty and it’s counterparts of horror. In the ideal scenario we decide to continue our fight for enhancing beauty till the end of our days the best way we can and with all means at our disposal. In the worst case scenario, if the hurt goes deep enough without being understood, processed and healed some become bitter. And they have a legitimate right to be – sometimes it is just not fair no matter how hard you try. They weigh life and humanity and decide it is not worth it and step into the final chamber of losing faith. From this place of nihilism, where nothing really matters anyway, the world looks different and life is not worth living outside the selfish impulse of a survival mechanism inside that just keeps going through the motions. Since nihilists don’t believe in meaning they are relieved of the responsibility to try or invest in anything or anyone, to take a risk, they don’t need to do anything and don’t need to feel the guilt for it. It’s easy and convenient to be a nihilist; it is well suited to the lazy. The thing is, they will still suffer the necessary sufferings of life, but their core won’t be protected by higher meaning. Those people are moral cowards for losing their faith. The only thing standing between beauty and chaos is the willingness of entities with free will to get their act together and try to make things better- at least in their small circle if they can’t reach outside.

There is some use in informed careful cynicism but there is nothing brave in giving up, what the nihilist in effect does. There is nothing brave in patronizing those who won’t give up, nothing special in the arrogance that sits at the outskirts and points fingers without getting involved in the dirty work, nothing noble in laughing at those who try and care like a villain from a bad movie that appears smarter than he is by the sheer fact that he never does anything else than cackle while making plans and empty threats. Losing faith that the things you do really matter and can make a difference does not make you a wise graduate from the school of life. It makes you a coward. You’ve met these people and you’ll meet some more. They’ve lost the cosmic game of chicken and are sitting in the corner while the rest continue on playing. Keep your faith and play on. There is a lot of beauty out there and a lot of things that could use your faith.