By Someonewise 
Do you need to be good or right even when no one appreciates it?
The answer is simple—but uncomfortable.
It depends on whose validation you are chasing and why you choose to be good at all.
If you seek validation from the person you helped—don’t be good.
Because goodness is rarely remembered and almost never repaid.
More often, your help is quietly erased.
Your kindness is rebranded as their weakness that you temporarily covered.
And if that favour is ever spoken about, it suddenly feels like an insult to the one who received it.
Everyone wants help.
No one wants a witness.
Every favour is expected to remain a secret.
If you seek validation from the world—be prepared to be shameless.
You will have to speak about your goodness,
while the beneficiary denies it, dilutes it, or discredits it.
The world applauds only what is announced,
not what is silently sacrificed.
But if your validation comes from your own conscience—continue being good.
Because the quiet knowledge that you did not shrink your values
will strengthen your spine when applause is absent.
That inner peace will matter long after people forget.
And if your validation comes from God—
if you believe every act is counted, every intent weighed, every deed answered—
then this is the purest reason of all.
No audience.
No returns.
No expectations.
Just karma doing its work.
So choose carefully.
Goodness is not free.
It always has a cost.
The only question is—who do you want to pay you back?