“The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding. ‘Live,’ Nietzsche says, ‘as though the day were here.’ It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal—carries the cross of the redeemer—not in the bright moments of his tribe’s great victories, but in the silence of his personal despair.”
To be very clear, the hero is you. And me. And anyone & everyone who chooses to be the Captain of their own ship, drop the Victim narrative, take Extreme Responsibility for Everything, and actively choose to make the most of this brief bit of time before they are not here anymore.
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