“He who as the why to live can bear with almost any how.” – Frederich Nietzsche
That sounds simple enough, just find out why to live. However, what struck me as I uploaded this just now is that those people who have to struggle desperately with ‘how’ to live (poverty, war, concentration camps, illness) are the ones that usually find out the ‘why’. Sort of a chicken or the egg type thing I suppose.
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>experiences make us who we are, so it only follows then that intense experiences make us who we are, intensely.
is this why people with the most extreme lives are the most intense? or is it just that they are unavoidably the most “alive”…since they are living life on the edge, so to speak. not holed up in a little cage of security and happy feelings…?