Bringing Love Back Online

As I was thinking about writing this blog, I was questioning what I should even say. I decided not to force a specific topic and just keep writing. The current themes in my life revolve around philosophy, love, and the Übermensch, borrowing heavily from Nietzsche. I have also been thinking about the free life, but my main focus going into the next year will be love and happiness.

Recently, I have been thinking a lot about Love with a capital L. I had that Love so much at one point, around 2019, and I had truly embraced it. But if you have read my recent blogs, you know that life has not been that great. That ability to Love was not lost, but suppressed. My goal is to bring it back online in the next year. Saying so is easy, but implementing it looks like a lot of mental gymnastics. Significant effort will be needed, as I will basically have to change my entire mindset. With love, I assume, happiness will follow.

I was always whiplashed by Naval Ravikant; his words trigger an anger in me. I am paraphrasing, but in essence, he says: "If you cannot figure out happiness, you are not really that developed or intelligent." It is true. It is a slap. After reading Nietzsche this past year, I was eventually brought to the understanding that the sentence is true. I reflected on the whole year and saw a lot of depression and anxiety. Overall, I saw an inability to enjoy life.

If we want to be the noble Übermensch Nietzsche talked about, his simple guidance was to enjoy life in the truest sense. I think he masterfully described it in his book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", specifically in the fourth part. As I was reading those beautiful stories, I was left questioning everything, haunted by the restless feeling that we are not yet the Übermensch. What would we have to do to become that Higher Man? I think I will spend a long time thinking about that path. As a first step, bringing Love back online is what I must do.