There are two types of people in this world: those that live with weight and those that live with lightness. Weight is an encumbering burden to carry that in the end pays off by making life more valuable, but often lacks pleasure in life. To live with weight is to live making all decisions important, critical, and evaluated. Lightness is a freeness surrounded by momentary pleasures that lacks an ultimate and significant purpose in life. To live with lightness is to live making all decisions automatically and according to instant desires instead of long-term goals. They are a dichotomy that the philosophers Parmenides and Nietzsche juxtapose. Parmenides believes weight is negative because it limits the person from living in full happiness whereas Nietzsche believes that lightness is negative because it is not "real and truthful." The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and the...