# Remember 06 · Breaking Free from Garbage

By [pan lei](https://paragraph.com/@pan-lei) · 2025-09-15

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Remember 06 · Breaking Free from Garbage
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If you truly want to break free from the garbage around you, you must give up the entertainment that wastes your life and instead persist in creating value. Even if the value is small, as long as it’s real, it still matters. However, once you begin to stand out, there will always be those who envy you. They will steal and destroy your achievements, undermine your confidence, and persuade you to lie flat, seek pleasure, and consume mindlessly. They will use artificially created obstacles and traps to frighten and tempt you into their carefully disguised gate of laziness. In the end, you will be completely drained, left struggling in isolation, confusion, and exhaustion. Every time you indulge in entertainment, more visible and invisible garbage will swarm toward you, slowly drowning and assimilating you, until you yourself become garbage. So, will you choose to burn brightly, or let yourself be buried?

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*Originally published on [pan lei](https://paragraph.com/@pan-lei/remember-06-breaking-free-from-garbage)*