Every person going through their lives will have to hold certain positions of ideas. They will be responsible for themselves from those ideas. There are essential characteristics of being human that each of us has to deal with either with confidence and naturally or with delusions and anxiety. Plato once said a measure of a man was what he had done with his power. Prime Human nature is to choose. And I believe Nietzsche's will to power is inevitably the will to choose.
There are many obstacles to using that power. If the circumstances are constantly hostile and the will to choose is dominated by the external, then the pure human will decay into something infinite. After all, in the infinite, you don't have to make any choices because infinity means all choices, so no choices. Our finite beings and what we choose to reveal our past and possibly indicate a destiny. Any individual in this world copes with such a struggle between the will to choose for themselves and for others. Political systems emerged from the will to choose. Different and specific kinds of personalities have emerged from the person's endeavour of their specific way of dealing with the will to choose.
Interestingly, in order to not feel powerless in terms of the will to choose, people tend to procrastinate choosing. All of the many world's distractions are subconsciously invited into one's life, where a responsible person would purge them all. Death is our limit for the will to choose. It is itself an obstacle for the will to choose, yet a natural one.
There are many kinds of dealing with having the will to choose. In order to have a sense of control, people tend to overemphasize certain aspects of their lives as if they are the complete life itself. They forget that the whole is larger than the sum of the parts. One type sacrifices all their need for affection and becomes ruthless. Another type sacrifices mastery and exaggerates love, connection and tenderness. Other gifts both to the void and now have the ultimate control because they have nothing to control.
The second type, which I have mentioned, challenged me for some time. I wasn't able to understand how they had seen others as the ultimate solution to will to power. Yet, after and after, I come to realize that they like to delegate the will to choose and deny any responsibility. So they fuck up anything good they do in order to not have any responsibility, escaping the inevitable will to choose cunningly.
Those are, nevertheless, persons who value relationships above all. Once they say Amor Fati, I believe there is no better companion, and they are capable of becoming a real friend. But until that time, they are needed to get rid of love to truly love. Once they accept themselves as you accept them, it is when you know they have said Amor Fati.
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