The Pyramid Needs Your Energy: Here's Why It’ll Never Set You Free
Have you noticed how tired you are after doing everything right? You followed the steps. You climbed the ladder. You checked every box. And yet… something still feels off. You’re not free, not deeply at peace, not there, wherever “there” was supposed to be.
It’s quiet, this realization. It doesn't crash down like a lightning bolt. It creeps in when you're driving home in silence. Or in that in-between moment, lying in bed with your phone just out of reach. That soft wondering: “If I’m doing all of this… why doesn’t it feel like mine?”
Let’s stay with that for a second. That whisper of misalignment because that’s not confusion. That’s clarity knocking.
A Familiar Climb, A Hidden Cost
Not the ancient, majestic kind. But a modern one, slick, digital, humming with productivity tools, Zoom calls, vision boards, branding strategies, and five-year plans.
You’ve been taught to climb it. Not just for survival, but for identity. The higher you go, the more “successful” you become. You’re told it’s your energy that fuels your growth, grit, hustle, self-discipline. But here’s the part they don’t tell you:
The pyramid was never designed to set you free. It was designed to keep you climbing.
The System Feeds on Your Effort
This modern pyramid, whether it's corporate success, spiritual optimization, or even the self-help treadmill functions like a battery.
It needs your energy to power itself.
It rewards you just enough to keep going, but not enough to feel full. And that’s the point.
Your overcommitment becomes its currency. Your burnout becomes its baseline. Your search for meaning becomes its marketing strategy.
It’s why the more you achieve, the more you’re sold new goals. It’s why stillness feels uncomfortable and almost rebellious. It’s why rest doesn’t always feel restful because the system wasn’t built to nourish you. It was built to extract from you.
What the Pyramid Doesn’t Want You to Know
There’s a reason clarity feels both relieving and terrifying because real clarity doesn’t just rearrange your schedule. It challenges the structure itself.
Clarity whispers truths like: “Success isn’t always alignment.” “Effort doesn’t always equal expansion.” “Maybe the metrics you’re chasing aren’t even yours.”
And these are dangerous truths - dangerous to the system that thrives when you never stop proving yourself.
The pyramid doesn’t collapse from revolution. It collapses when you stop climbing.
A Simple Metaphor: The Treadmill in the Desert
Imagine a treadmill. Now imagine it’s sitting in the middle of a desert. Every day, you run on it. Hard. Sweat pouring, heart pounding. You feel movement, even pride. From the treadmill’s perspective, you’re progressing. From yours, too until you stop and realize:
You’re still in the middle of a desert. That’s what the pyramid does. It creates momentum without direction. Progress without presence. Achievement without liberation.
The desert isn’t your failure. It’s just that the machine you’ve been told will “get you there” wasn’t made to take you anywhere at all.
A Quiet Shift: What If You Stepped Off?
Listen, you can’t out-hustle a system that runs on your hustle. You can’t self-help your way out of a structure that profits from your constant seeking. And maybe… you don’t need to.
Maybe the invitation isn’t to climb faster or optimize harder. Maybe it’s to pause. Step off. Let the dust settle.
What might emerge if your energy was no longer feeding a system, but feeding you?
What might change if the pyramid no longer got the best of your time, your focus, your breath?
These aren’t answers. They’re doorways. Quiet openings into a different way of seeing. You don’t have to decide anything right now. But you might want to ask:
What am I building with my energy? And who if not me is it actually serving?
A Gentle Nudge Toward Clarity
If this post resonated with you, it’s probably not because you’re lost.
It’s because something deep inside of you is remembering.
Remembering that your energy is sacred.
That you are not a machine. That freedom isn’t at the top of a pyramid, it’s found at the edge of your own awareness.
And sometimes, the most radical thing you can do is pause long enough to see clearly. Are you ready to take one small step toward that clarity?
🧭 Take the Clarity Quiz here.
It’s not about more information. It’s about honest orientation. See where your energy is going and whether it’s truly yours to give.
To your clarity and growth,
~Solomon Fompun Domshak
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