Nihilism and overcoming it

 

“To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”- Friedrich Nietzsche 

There comes a time in everybody s life, when one questions everything. Questions may come about life, death, happiness, values, etc. But the most serious question amongst all is whether life has any meaning. Various human beings have interpreted the question and answer to it according to there knowledge. But one philosophy in the 19th century has stormed into negative criticism. Popularly known as Nihilism

Nihilism in basic words can be said as "Life has no meaning". This theory questions all the values on which the world walks. It is the devaluing values. This theory is mostly associated with Friedrich Nietzsche who was a german philosopher from the 19th century. His texts are wrongly misunderstood because it is not easy to understand them. His theory is widely popular amongst teens nowadays. His theory in short means - Where nothing holds a man down, as there are no values to be feared of, the man becomes most powerfull.

Basically this theory is so good, that if one falls in it, it becomes very hard to come out of it. As people do not anymore believe in doing anything. For every question, there is one same reply, "as it does not matter, life is pointless". Many of the people are struct in this dillema but many come out of it. Those who come out, can be said as optimistic nihilist. They take this meaningless life and change it into creating there own meaning. To them, there is nothing dragging them down. They know as there is no meaning, everything and anything could be tried. This person is no more in chains. There is no god, values to stop him from doing anything out of the box. 

One may say he becomes selfish. Some may, but not all. As those who are nihilistic are more sympathetic to societal good. They believe in removing the misery of the world. They join political groups, environment causes etc. They see all materilistic dilusions head on and are not slaves to them. The greatest pleasure to them is to head on face all there own fears and question pleasures. They do not get angry when people tell them that they lack things. To opposite of it, they think on it, and if they feel that they really do, they change it. They are open to discussion. They do not argue madly, but patiently and in smooth way. Everything they see, they revalaute it. They value objects only to their real use. Luxury is no more pleasurious to them, as they know, one becomes a slave to them. A stimuli for a temporary period is not real. The dophanie makes one feel good, and wants more of it. One surrenders to this external thing which controls him. So every question is broke down and evaluated. 

One who studies nihilism, existentialism and absurdism, can give a little blend of everything these three theoriesband make its own philosophy. Own guidelines to live life. He can alter, edit, re-edit its own philosophy, which suits him. So it is true that one can become a Nihilist and change into a incredible person. The path is dificult as overcoming nihilism also seems like doing opposite to nihilsim. Making a false world it seems. But only if one decides to climb the mountain, can one experience the beauty . 

Values - Revaluation - Questioning - Overcoming