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ONE LINE FROM NIETZSCHE--or rather one "quoted" line from him--still rings strong in my head two years after I heard it. He supposedly said that there is no absolute "free will" just as there is no "unfree will."

Instead, free will to him was about degrees of strength. More precisely, he put that free/strong will was in unifying your desires and yourself toward what you wish.

See, I still find myself in situations that I do reluctantly. I bitch and moan, and yet I still carry through. When I'm in the situation, I am constantly wishing I were out.

Yes, you must do things you need to do. But if you do things not because you want them to happen, but because you are lazy, or because you are pressured, then you shouldn't do it.

i.e. if you were laid out your motivations for doing something and did not endorse the majority of the desires that are pushing you in a certain direction, then you should quit.

you shouldn't do things contradictory to your desires if you truly care for your well-being.

this is the kind of weakness-of-will that creates battered-wives syndrome.

this is what makes hypocrites

and this is what makes whiners and complainers who do nothing to fix their problems.

"Do what you endorse, and endorse what you do" is the maxim.

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