It serves to remind me to stop comparing my existence to others or ones that I have imagined. Love your fate because the only thing you truly own in life is your experience. It's unique in the truest possible sense.
If you practice amor fati it might make you uncomfortable to say it to yourself when experiencing bad things, this is until you realise that there is no good without bad and visa versa. At best the bad experiencing is amplifying the next high. At worst it is a price that you are paying to have and relive beautiful memories.
'Love of ones fate'. I interpret it as being more accepting and forgiving of yourself and your life. Sometimes we are our biggest critic.
Yesterday there was a post on HN on ADHD and top comment on dealing with it was something like - 'You know you do not need to be a high-performing individual.' [1] I think that is an example of Amor Fati.
7. Consider when, on a voyage, your ship is anchored; if you go on shore to get water you may along the way amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish, or an onion. However, your thoughts and continual attention ought to be bent towards the ship, waiting for the captain to call on board; you must then immediately leave all these things, otherwise you will be thrown into the ship, bound neck and feet like a sheep. So it is with life. If, instead of an onion or a shellfish, you are given a wife or child, that is fine. But if the captain calls, you must run to the ship, leaving them, and regarding none of them. But if you are old, never go far from the ship: lest, when you are called, you should be unable to come in time.
17. Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one. If it is his pleasure you should act a poor man, a cripple, a governor, or a private person, see that you act it naturally. For this is your business, to act well the character assigned you; to choose it is another's.
