I think people are being too hard on the author. I've noticed in life that some people have a much easier time with their lot in life than others. It's not even about accepting for them, it simply is, and they simply do.
I have a mixture of deep respect, and deep contempt for such people.
While the author certainly comes across as a bit narcissistic, he's clearly aware of it, and giving voice to his thoughts, even those he understands are unbecoming. Plenty of people would do well to have that level of self-awareness.
I really appreciated the author's framing of the issue, both in its candor, and in connecting it with concepts like amor fati. His description of how attempting to live with real integrity affects you was also very relateable to me.
I hate to cast aspersions, but part of me feels that some of these negative comments are generated by people who've never practiced these kinds of mental disciplines because they belong to the former of the two groups I described at the beginning of thos comment.
Such people never experience this precise kind of turmoil because living is not about integrity, but doing whatever it is that they need to be doing. These are just different ways of existing and seeing oneself in the world.
I'm hoping the author can learn to love fate, the best times in my life have been when I have managed to maintain this practice.
I have a mixture of deep respect, and deep contempt for such people.
While the author certainly comes across as a bit narcissistic, he's clearly aware of it, and giving voice to his thoughts, even those he understands are unbecoming. Plenty of people would do well to have that level of self-awareness.
I really appreciated the author's framing of the issue, both in its candor, and in connecting it with concepts like amor fati. His description of how attempting to live with real integrity affects you was also very relateable to me.
I hate to cast aspersions, but part of me feels that some of these negative comments are generated by people who've never practiced these kinds of mental disciplines because they belong to the former of the two groups I described at the beginning of thos comment.
Such people never experience this precise kind of turmoil because living is not about integrity, but doing whatever it is that they need to be doing. These are just different ways of existing and seeing oneself in the world.
I'm hoping the author can learn to love fate, the best times in my life have been when I have managed to maintain this practice.