Peers, teachers, and the public makes us fake ourselves. There are so many things have limit us to become the real us. We have to stop caring what people comments and being the real us. Independence is not only about taking care of ourselves, but also accept our true identity. “Free spirit”, by definition, means an independent or uninhibited person. Helping people if needed is not a bad thing. But, we have to be very careful if we want to help somebody or dedicate ourselves. “There’s no help for it: we must haul into court and mercilessly interrogate our feelings of devotion, of sacrifice for our neighbour, the whole morality of self-renunciation, as well as the aesthetic of ‘disinterested contemplation’, which the current emasculation of
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“Those of us who are destined to be independent and to command must in return set ourselves our own tests-and set them at the proper time. We should not try to get out of our tests, even though they may be the most dangerous game we can play, and though they are really only tests performed for ourselves as witness and for no other judge. Not to be dependent on any one person, not even the most beloved-every person is a prison, and a nook. Not to be dependent on a fatherland, not even the most suffering and needy-it is certainly easier to detach your heart from a victorious fatherland. Not to be dependent on pity, not even the if it were for higher men into whose extraordinary suffering and helplessness we have accidentally seen. Not to be dependent on any science, not even one that would tempt us with the most precious discoveries, seemingly reserved just for us. Not to be dependent even on our own detachment, on the voluptuous faraway foreignness of the bird, who constantly flies up to ever greater heights so that it can see ever more beneath it-the danger of the filter. Not to be dependent on own virtues, nor allow our wholeness to be sacrificed to some singularity about ourselves, our “hospitality”, for example, as is the danger of dangers for ardent and generous hearts who are prodigal, almost uncaring with themselves, and practice the virtue of liberality until it is a vice.” (41) In the whole paragraph, Nietzsche is telling us what to do if we want to be independent. And I agree with his advices. Undoubtedly, his advices are too aggressive and irrational because humans are born to be a community. No one can live without relay to other people. Also, the modern society has forced us to accept the existence of technology, and we cannot live without any help from any people. Nietzsche believes that our thinking is limited for we are too reliable on other
“Those of us who are destined to be independent and to command must in return set ourselves our own tests-and set them at the proper time. We should not try to get out of our tests, even though they may be the most dangerous game we can play, and though they are really only tests performed for ourselves as witness and for no other judge. Not to be dependent on any one person, not even the most beloved-every person is a prison, and a nook. Not to be dependent on a fatherland, not even the most suffering and needy-it is certainly easier to detach your heart from a victorious fatherland. Not to be dependent on pity, not even the if it were for higher men into whose extraordinary suffering and helplessness we have accidentally seen. Not to be dependent on any science, not even one that would tempt us with the most precious discoveries, seemingly reserved just for us. Not to be dependent even on our own detachment, on the voluptuous faraway foreignness of the bird, who constantly flies up to ever greater heights so that it can see ever more beneath it-the danger of the filter. Not to be dependent on own virtues, nor allow our wholeness to be sacrificed to some singularity about ourselves, our “hospitality”, for example, as is the danger of dangers for ardent and generous hearts who are prodigal, almost uncaring with themselves, and practice the virtue of liberality until it is a vice.” (41) In the whole paragraph, Nietzsche is telling us what to do if we want to be independent. And I agree with his advices. Undoubtedly, his advices are too aggressive and irrational because humans are born to be a community. No one can live without relay to other people. Also, the modern society has forced us to accept the existence of technology, and we cannot live without any help from any people. Nietzsche believes that our thinking is limited for we are too reliable on other