“What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you in your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence — even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust.’ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?” (Frederich Nietzsche).
Life is a series of experiments that are always seeking something new. But you can’t ever know the result of the experiment until you actually run the experiment. This is a worldview that promotes a process of living by affirming life rather than negating life. The person who stays in motion, embraces difference, creates value and identity, makes connections, and conducts “life-experiments”. This is the person that seeks a purpose for their existence rather than the person conforming to the safety of the systems of thought around them.
When you’re affirming your existence, you can’t know how your life is going to play out until you’re actually doing it. And you can’t know exactly what kind of person you’re going to be until you’re actually living and seeing the connections around you.
When it comes to living life, Deleuze and Guattari say, “This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensity segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times.”