Nietzsche's Myth of Eternal Recurrence

Do you want this? Living the same life over and over again, with both pain and joys that have been lived throughout your life time. The thought of having to go through our pains again and continue to repeat them over and again seems unbearable, insane. I am sure the thought of repeating our joys would be great but most of us try to avoid any kind of pain. Some could say that joys are accompanied by pain and with no pain there could be no joy in the accomplishments we have in life.

There have been many television shows that have portrayed eternal recurrence of life, mostly by one day, and the characters that notice and live the recurrence seem to enjoy the first few times around but after a few they realize the craziness of doing the same things over and over. Even in this one life we live people cannot seem to accept certain repetitive behaviors in their lives. Like going to the office on a set schedule, and doing the same kind of work day in and day out, they consider that an insane life style. Others find the repetition to be a sense of security.