Compare Nietzsche's Response To Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer’s pessimism is simply his idea that life is meaningless. He says that human life must be some kind of mistake. He thinks that life is meaningless because the ideals that we have about meaning are not what makes up true meaning. Most people think that goals or happiness bring meaning to their lives. Schopenhauer would say that once you meet the goal or goals that you think give your life meaning, you will become bored. The happiness that comes about when people meet their goal or goals will not last forever, because happiness is only temporary. There are terrible truths to life, and they are everyone suffers, gets old, and dies. With all this pessimism, one would think that Schopenhauer thinks everyone should want to kill themselves because there is no meaning to life. However, he thinks that everyone has an instinct just to keep living. The temporary happiness could just be enough for people to want to keep striving for it even though it will go away, you will suffer, get old, and die.
Nietzsche does not think that we just have this unconscious drive to keep living, though. What he believes is that there are two different types of people who find their attachment to life in different ways. The first group of people he talks about is the common herd. The common herd are those who do not think, meaning that they do not reflect on the terrible truths and how they affect their lives, and they use narcotics to cope with their struggles. The second group of people is the higher types. These people do reflect on the terrible truths and ascetic ideals and narcotics do not work for