"What's the point? Wealth, health, freedom, love, success" (S37)

What’s the point? Wealth, health, freedom, love, success. What’s the point of anything that’s destined to end? Sometimes I feel like a cog in a machine at work. A robotic replaceable non-human entity. My colleagues sign-off their emails with ‘kind regards’. Sometimes start their first sentence with ‘hope you had a good weekend’. And it all feels like pretend. It all seems artificial. Performative. We come into work at 9, review documents that uphold the status quo until 10, and are paid a generous monthly wage in exchange. At the end of the day, I hop into a cab that’s pre-paid, and return back to the council estate where I was raised. My friends are fighting with each breath to get paid. How can I complain? The person speaking in this video has a certain calmness about him. As if he knows how this whole story is going to end. As if he knows the limits of his creative license. The limits of his power and control. The person speaking in this video has a certain hopefulness about him. As if he knows that justice will eventually be served. As if he knows that everything can be fixed by one word. ‘Be’ and it became. The speaker says that success follows self-restraint. That this world is nothing more than a maze. Each moment representing a test of character. Each person looking back at us like a mirror. Revealing who we are behind the picture. Beneath the surface. Deep down I’m hurting. Deep down I’m certain. Certain that all this suffering and sacrifice will be worth it.