It’s not about the goal, but the process. The strongest drives result in the greatest people. The ideal person is not the strongest, but him who seek strength the most. While said person might become one of the strongest, it’s all a result of his attitude, his values, and his instinct (his strong drives), and it’s these which are valuable. For people who can thrive in suffering, suffering cease to be a problem. I only have a small affinity for suffering now, but I had a large one last time I had a mixed episode (hypomanic and suffering at the same time, a perfect description of this state would be “Dionysian”)
Suffering often occurs because the gap between what is and what we want, so it motivates us towards greatness.
By helping those who suffer, you lessen their need to grow, or worse—you cause them to depend on the help you’re providing. Perhaps, without your help, they’d be forced to improve themselves, reaching the point of being self-sufficient.
The ubermensch is him who always improves, and always grows stronger, either without the need of suffering and challenges, or because he seeks suffering and challenges.
Have many people on here not hit rock bottom, or experienced something terrible, only to overcome it and grow as a person? These kind of improvements are not minor by any means!
It’s not about the goal, but the process. The strongest drives result in the greatest people. The ideal person is not the strongest, but him who seek strength the most. While said person might become one of the strongest, it’s all a result of his attitude, his values, and his instinct (his strong drives), and it’s these which are valuable. For people who can thrive in suffering, suffering cease to be a problem. I only have a small affinity for suffering now, but I had a large one last time I had a mixed episode (hypomanic and suffering at the same time, a perfect description of this state would be “Dionysian”)
Suffering often occurs because the gap between what is and what we want, so it motivates us towards greatness.
By helping those who suffer, you lessen their need to grow, or worse—you cause them to depend on the help you’re providing. Perhaps, without your help, they’d be forced to improve themselves, reaching the point of being self-sufficient.
The ubermensch is him who always improves, and always grows stronger, either without the need of suffering and challenges, or because he seeks suffering and challenges.
Have many people on here not hit rock bottom, or experienced something terrible, only to overcome it and grow as a person? These kind of improvements are not minor by any means!