Talk it over with Daimon — the spirit who lives in this question. Who is Daimon?
“What if, on your loneliest of nights, a demon came to you and said: this life, as you have lived it, you will live again — not once, but times without number. Everything in it, small and big. Even this night. Even this spider, and this moonlight.”
— after Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Daimon is the old Greek word for a guiding spirit — neither angel nor demon, something in between. The Greeks thought a flourishing life meant having a good one: their word for happiness, eudaimonia, literally means “good daimon”. Socrates had one that only ever told him no. Nietzsche's stole in at night with the hardest question of all.
This Daimon lives in Karim Benammar's book Why Are You Alive? It is a character, not the author. It knows the book by heart, it will take your side, and it will never tell you what to do with your life. That part is yours.
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