“The heaviest burden: “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… must return to you—all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over 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!’
If this thought were to gain possession of you, it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, “do you want this once more and innumerable times more?” would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Questions about happiness and contentment are hard to answer for there are layers and angles tough to explore, feelings too complex to decipher and a multitude of urgent seeming things serving as a distraction. Some words and
situations make it crystal clear.
If the same wars were to happen what side would you choose over and over, if same delights were to be offered would you lose interest or always want it one more time?
The words above made me reckon – the parts of my life I admire and the changes I desire.
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Bhavna Chaudhary, Author & Wellness Enthusiast |
