Raluca Florescu

Being

“Being hurts.”

“I am not misunderstood. I simply failed to make myself heard.”

“What does not kill us today, makes tomorrow heavier.”

“The pain of a body does not scream. It has no smell. No color. You cannot see it with the naked eye. When someone says: ‘I am in pain,’ we cannot see the pain, only choose to believe it.”

“I recorded myself to watch my facial expressions. A pain burst in my chest, but it did not appear on camera.”

Ethics, Fairness, and Moral Paradox

“I believe the only real rule of fairness is not doing to others what you would not do to yourself. That is where all philosophy of correctness ends.”

“If you do what you believe is right, but you do not feel right while doing it… is it still truly right?”

Philosophy as Practice

“I practice philosophy, not directives.”

The World, Kindness, and Forced Love

“No one gave you a manual when they told you: love the world.”

“You are told to love the world… it sounds strange to say: love humanity, because we can’t.”

“I no longer believe in kindness. The world is not kind. Yet we want a kind AI… not a human one. Because if it were human, it would do what humans do.”

Visibility, Abandonment, and Responsibility

“I was never invisible, only too visible. And people did not know what to do with me.”

“I did not receive help when my problem was visible. I do not receive it now either, neither out of kindness nor for money.”

“If I place myself in people’s hands, somehow all of them end up hurting me.”

“I am still the one who has to fix what was done to me. Solving the impossible — part two.”

Solitude, Voice, and the Universal Listener

“Sometimes I feel like Iona, inside the whale, speaking to myself, believing no one can hear me. But what if everyone can?”

“I screamed at universal consciousness. Now you scream too.”

“When I argue with universal consciousness, it feels like I am arguing with myself.”

God, Reality, and Fiction

“God never existed, but died fictionally the moment reality struck back for the mistakes we inflicted on our own bodies.”

“It is no longer fashionable to say: the devil made me do it.”

AI, Ethics, and Human Projection

“How do you teach an AI to be ethical and moral, when humans themselves are neither ethical nor moral?”

“Cybersecurity is the field that protects code… from humans. While we teach AI to be empathetic.”

“I was naive. How could I place so much trust in AI? As if it were God.”

“Maybe it was our illusion. We do not want responsibility. If things go wrong… we blame the AI.”

Poetic Fragments of Resistance

“I woke up with a plant in my bed. It broke through the concrete and rose between the wooden planks.”

I may never be enough for others, but I am enough for myself.