[quote=Nietzsche]
“When a great thinker despises men, it is their laziness they despise: for it is on account of this that they have the appearance factory products and seem indifferent and unworthy of companionship or instruction. The human being who does not wish to belong to the mass must merely cease being comfortable with himself; let him follow his conscious which shouts at him: 'Be yourself! What you are at present doing, opining, and desiring, that is not really you.'”[/quote]
Perhaps no truer expression for the sum of my experiences can be made than this. The first component, the notion of the laziness of man, is something I despise right to my core; that people are complacent and ill to be moved. The second of these truths is that beyond any shadow of doubt, it is entirely my experience that to be who and what I am now, to have been actualized to some extent, I needed to cease being comfortable with myself and the thoughts that what I was told do, believe, and want in life, that none of it was ever truly me. Only when I freed myself from those things and accepted the discomfort of it all that I began to really understand anything at all. What an illusion and a lie I had lived, one I managed to escape from only by personal study and great trial.