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Can I Love Everything That Has Happened to Me?
Can I affirm my whole fate — including what I wish to erase?
Amor fati — I want to learn to see as beautiful what is necessary in things.
Nietzsche wrote that he would make "amor fati" — "love your fate" — the principle of his life: beyond enduring or bearing the past, to affirm and even love everything that was necessary as beautiful. Tellingly, this Latin phrase itself is not found in the ancient Stoic texts — Nietzsche drew it from the Stoic idea of accepting fate and forged it into a single concept. Where the Stoics calmly "accepted" fate, Nietzsche pushed it into a fervent "love it." The question branches. The Stoic Aurelius urged yielding to the flow of nature, while on the other side existentialism asked one to hurl oneself against a given fate. To accept, to love, or to resist?
On nights it is easy to chew over the past in regret, this question offers a quiet reconciliation: even that made me.
This saying overwhelms me.
📝I, Too, Stand Before It
This saying overwhelms me. Good things are easy to love, but to love even the failures and wounds I wish to erase? Yet seen again, the self with those cut away would not be who I am now. If what hurt me shaped who I am, then hating it is hating a part of myself. Though I fall short of loving fervently like Nietzsche, I can at least begin by nodding, "that too made me." Before this question of reconciling with the whole of my past, I still stand carefully.
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