That is to say, one will not be able to be free. YOUTH: Be disliked by other people—is that what you are saying?
PHILOSOPHER: What I am saying is, don’t be afraid of being disliked.
YOUTH: But that’s— PHILOSOPHER: I am not telling you to go so far as to live in such a way that you will be disliked,
and I am not saying engage in wrongdoing. Please do not misunderstand that.
YOUTH: No. Then let’s change the question. Can people actually endure the weight of freedom?
Are people that strong? To not care even if one is disliked by one’s own parents— can one become so self-righteously defiant?
PHILOSOPHER: One neither prepares to be self-righteous nor becomes defiant. One just separates tasks.
There may be a person who does not think well of you, but that is not your task.
And again, thinking things like He should like me or I’ve done all this, so it’s strange that he doesn’t like me,
is the reward-oriented way of thinking of having intervened in another person’s tasks.
One moves forward without fearing the possibility of being disliked.
One does not live as if one were rolling downhill, but instead climbs the slope that lies ahead. That is freedom for a human being.
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