25 There are, surely, potentially ‘weak’ motives to affirm Eternal Return—namely out of fear of death as a final stop to one’s existence, or fear of irrecoverably losing one’s past, or the desire for eternity. Affirming ‘Eternal Return’ or amor fati is a test of strength only if it involves affirming what we most dread. If what an individual most fears is not, say, the ‘small man’ (Zarathustra’s obsessive dislike) or the recurrence of horrors, but, say, death and the absence of any eternity—just the sorts of fears that, according to Nietzsche, helped generate the life-denying metaphysics of transcendence—then affirming ‘Eternal Return’ will be easier for him than affirming a single non-recurring life. Indeed, the test of strength for such an individual would be to affirm a finite existence.