gypsy_eyes

Nietzche writes, "What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you, `This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moon-light between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!' Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him, `You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine!'"

I stumbled across this quote about a month ago and havent been able to erase it from my mind. The Theory of Eternal Recurrence can be an intimidating subject to ponder. How differently would you live if you did, in fact, face each day as though you would have to live it over innumerable times? Would you really agree to sentence yourself to an eternal life of monotony, drudgery and regret when, by making other choices, you could live a life of real meaning with happiness and vitality? Nietche wasnt trying to ask what the meaning to life is but to provoke the reader into pondering the meaning to ones own life. Whether we live it over innumerable times or not doesnt seem to be the point. The point then would be to live it to its fullest make the best of each day. I for one am having a fanfuckingtastic day!!!! I will await the day or night the demon comes to steal me with a smile on my face and say You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine!