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You Are the Last Lighthouse

How modern values are dismantling your soul — and how you rebuild it from the ashes.

By Randolphe TanoguemPublished 5 months ago 3 min read
You Are the Last Lighthouse
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You feel it, don’t you?

Even if you don’t talk about it.

Even if you’ve gotten good at silencing it.

There’s a pressure in your chest when the room goes quiet.

There’s a mirror you avoid when no one’s watching.

Not because you're bad.

But because you're drifting — slowly, almost invisibly — away from what you once believed was right.

Let me say something most people won’t:

You didn’t fall. You faded.

And that’s far more dangerous.

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Modern morality doesn’t scream at you.

It seduces you.

It wraps its arms around your fear of being judged…

Then whispers, “You’re perfect as you are.”

Even when you know damn well — you’re not proud of what you’ve become.

The culture taught you how to brand your image.

But it never taught you how to bury your shame.

So instead, you learned to call your compromises “growth.”

You learned to trade integrity for convenience… and name it freedom.

We used to live by codes.

Not just religious. Not just ancestral.

Inner codes.

The sacred, silent lines you swore never to cross.

But then came “no judgment.”

“Live your truth.”

“Do what feels good.”

And before you knew it, you had truth without structure, freedom without form, and choice without consequence.

You became a free agent — but emotionally bankrupt.

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I’m not saying this to shame you.

I’m saying it because I’ve seen what happens when this goes unchecked.

You wake up one day with everything the world told you to chase — pleasure, attention, even a hint of power —

…yet something feels missing.

A hollow drum beat in the center of your chest.

You can't quite name it…

But it sounds like:

“You betrayed yourself.”

And maybe you did.

A few times.

Quietly.

Justified it.

Because it was “just one time.”

But it never was.

You know it.

One compromise becomes a pattern.

A pattern becomes a persona.

And eventually, the world claps for the version of you that your soul can no longer recognize.

But here’s the good news.

No — the holy news:

You can return.

You can choose alignment over applause.

And yes, it will cost you.

Because you’ll lose friends who still believe “everything is fine.”

You’ll be mocked by the ones who mistook numbness for peace.

You’ll be called “too rigid,” “too righteous,” “too much.”

But that’s because you stopped drinking the water they drown in.

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See, what most people call morality today… is just marketing with a halo.

You were taught to sell your authenticity for attention.

To make peace with mediocrity, as long as it came with comfort.

To confuse healing with hiding.

Growth with gratification.

Power with performance.

But real morality?

It hurts before it heals.

It demands sacrifice.

It calls you to hold a line that nobody claps for.

That’s why it’s rare.

That’s why it’s powerful.

And that’s why the world needs you now.

Because you —

With your bruised standards and your aching conscience —

You are the last lighthouse.

You still remember what it felt like to walk with clean hands and an unbroken gaze.

You still know the weight of “no” and the war it takes to say it.

You still feel something sacred when others only feel stimulation.

That’s not weakness.

That’s divine resistance.

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So here’s the call:

Return to your code.

Quiet the noise.

Rebuild the lines.

Restore the throne inside you.

Be the one who holds still when the wind rages.

Be the one who stands clean while the world celebrates decay.

You won’t be the loudest.

But you’ll be the clearest.

You’ll burn.

Not to entertain.

But to guide.

💬 If this spoke to you — speak back.

Share it. Save it. Stand in it.

Because now more than ever…

the world needs one man, one woman, one soul to burn brighter than the storm.

And that one?

Is you.

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Randolphe Tanoguem

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