Amor Fati

The discussion between two chess players touches on the mysterious recurring dream of one of them, leading to the critical discovery of the timeless truth of the importance of living in the moment. ‘Amor fati’ (Latin: ‘love of fate’) is an expression used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in their life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary. Friedrich Nietzsche’s reflections on the phrase formed the concept of ‘eternal recurrence’ – the idea that, over an infinite period of time, everything recurs infinitely. An individual, therefore, develops a will to live exactly the same life over and over for all eternity.