Within an unavoidable, terrible reality, a parent fashions it for a child as if it were a game. Is that fashioning a lie that deceives reality, or an active love that refuses to lose to the dark?
THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS
Before an unavoidable, terrible reality, is fashioning hope for a child a lie, or love?
THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL
Amor fati: ... ich will das Notwendige an den Dingen als das Schöne sehen lernen.
📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER
Amor fati — I want to learn to see the necessary in things as the beautiful.
💡 TL;DR
Nietzsche called it amor fati — the resolve to learn to see even the necessary as beautiful.
📝The Classic Answers
Nietzsche called it amor fati — the resolve to learn to see even the necessary as beautiful. Rather than shattering in hatred of a reality one cannot change, it is the stance of fashioning, oneself, a beauty to keep within it. To weave a grain of hope for a child before unavoidable horror is not a lie that deceives reality but the most active love that refuses to lose to it. Rather than meeting the unavoidable with resentment, I choose to look first for the beauty I can fashion within it.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
If a hard reality can't be changed today, before hating it, find one small beauty you can fashion within it.
📖 Classic Source:
Nietzsche, The Gay Science §276.
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