Journal Writing Prompt: What If
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!’ Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, ‘Never have I heard anything more divine’?”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
In your journal consider the question Nietzsche poses above. What would your answer be? Why?
Journal Writing Prompt Bonus: If you answer was cursing the demon….what can you do, right now, and in every moment afterward, to change your life so that your answer would be “Never have I heard anything more divine?”
Happy Journaling!
Dee
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