I want to live, a journey to and through nhilism
By Rahel Tariku Three years ago if you had asked me, what I was living for, I had a clear cut answer. Something I was passionate about, that kept me going every single morning and made me hope for a better day. If you asked me , what if your reason to live no longer became enough or true, I would have said I'd simply wish to die. Because what is the point of living for nothing when eventually nothing matters? Why face life when your existence or inexistence is pointless? Yes, your closed ones will be sad but one day they will die too and everything about your life will be forgotten. It’s all directionless wandering that strips you from all power and fuel you had for life. I know, it's nihilist of me but it’s true. In the words of Friedrich Nietzsche, the German scholastic period precursor to existentialism, “…Nihilism appears at that point, not that the displeasure of existence has become greater than before but because one has come to mistrust any ‘meaning’ in suffering, indee