Retract yourself from the familiar circles and wait to see how many come looking for you; you will be startled at how easily you are forgotten and how unimportant your presence is. You are forgotten in an instant and the people only feign concern once you are formally dead, once you are in the papers or pronounced in a cell phone message. These sycophants feign concern because they are expected to and only recall your life and deeds by spitting generalities as though they were profound insights into your person. “He was a father, a husband, a community leader, he will be missed.” Save your pretend tears. Who will speak the truth of me?
The small sounds you make are inaudible from space. The greatest scream you can muster is less than a whisper in the course of time. You may scream the truth but it will not be received, it will not be heard by the deaf mob. Sincere love will be traded for caprice. You may be virtuous and true and be smeared as a villain, you will die as such, there is no justice in the world, no equity, no returning balance to set things straight. You will behold vile men branded as saints instead. The greatest of the past are not known to the people of today; great empires and emperors lay smashed to dust, forgotten as if they never existed. As the coming generations are not educated in the ways of the past they repeat a cycle which has always been: the stage is the same and the emperors have different names, but they kill themselves in vain the same. The people continue to cry and lie over the same as they always have, even when wisdom holds a flame to the absurd, they trudge forward to defeat themselves. In a life so meaningless and so irrelevant, how are you so distressed, so concerned, why do you feel loneliness from your isolation when your breath is ever present?
No need to feel distress as this will be over soon. Time destroys everything and nothing can resist it: entropy will crush what is false and cleanse the world of the minds which are plagiarized.
You can still be a good man even if no one realizes it.