“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in future, not in past, not in all eternity. Not merely to endure that which happens of necessity ……but to love it.”

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Hello peeps!

Let me start by explaining this quote (yeah yeah, I know you understood but I need content 💀). Nietzsche describes amor fati as “following”. There is so much in life we can not control. We will experience pain, separation etc, but our task is to accept and embrace them, not because it hurt us but because of the opportunities it provided to learn and strengthen ourselves.

Okay okay it got a bit philosophical😅 but growing up ( more like entering adulthood) made me realise that your life is how you want it to be.

Universe keeps throwing the same problems in different versions at you over and over again till you master them.

I read somewhere:

“No one has the power to hurt you, we hurt ourselves.”

When you seek beauty in people and things, you will not only find it, but you become it. We should learn to let go and forgive not for their sake but for our soul.

I read this verse in the Quran, and it became really special to me:

“…Perhaps you dislike something and it is good for you; and perhaps you love something and it is bad for you. God knows, while you know not.” (2:216)

If we stop seeing our problems as “problems” and start seeing them as an “opportunity” maybe life gets easier? If we start seeing our problems as something which could help us be a better person, maybe life gets easier? I know it’s not as simple as it seems to be. But we can try.

Amor fati doesn’t mean to pretend to be happy when you’re not, it means trying to be happy and trusting that everything has a place in your life, even the annoying, unfair and difficult parts.

Whether you call it amor fati or being grateful in all circumstances, the result is the same: life feels lighter when you stop wrestling with it and start trusting the process.

After all C’est la vie (that’s life)

Thanks for reading!

I know this is too philosophical but I promise next blog will be something fun!

Until next time!