We would assume that affirming life, agreeing to its point and purpose, would be straight forward and natural, those who do not affirm life have a problem. However, could it be that we have our analyses the wrong way round? Perhaps it is life that presents itself as a problem and therefore it is the struggle to affirm life that is natural. Under this interpretation, we do not simply live with ease, life’s purpose and meaning is not self-evident. Not all ways of life and acts of behaviour give the person acting the same quality of answer to life’s question. The problem that life gives to the person living is which actions, which behaviours, and what manners of viewing the world allow one to accept life, say yes to its highs and lows and affirm its journey. In this essay, I shall compare two ways of answering life’s question, one from Nietzsche in the form of his conception of the will to power, and one by Plato in the form of his conception of Eros in the Symposium. How do we best affirm life, through power or through love?