Amor Fati: Reliably Regain Your Tranquility Today
After a long day of work, you decide on taking a walk outside. As you stroll, by people, cars, trees and buildings, the sun’s brightness sparkles all around you. All of the sudden, dark gray clouds appear in the sky, and next thing you know, water lashes down on you, hijacking the beautiful sun. “Why is this happening to me ?” you whisper to yourself while frowning. Flouncing back home, anger is at your side. Suddenly, the whole world looks ugly; you are upset. Embracing Your Situation Enhances Your Life Being upset at the rain isn’t very useful, it just ruins your walk. When you got upset, you did not realize the rain doesn’t obey your moods. Yet you still got mad and it ruined your walk, a relaxing part of the day. But there’s another way to look at events that will prevent you from having a useless bad reaction. This way of viewing things is Amor Fati (or love of fate). More practically, it means to love what happens. That might be an event, an emotion or a circumstance. This m...