Man’s Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
"it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist , not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibilty to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."
Viktor E Frankl is a world war 2 concentration camp survivor, psychologist by profession. This book discusses how meaning is very important to living life, especially at times when it looks like you are just waiting for a dishonorable death. The above passage says that life does not come with a meaning but we have to give life a meaning by our true actions. For the same set of factors in life, every individual will make a different meaning and this meaning can never be the same for any 2.
Sufferings are part of life. The sooner we accept it and deal with it, better our life will be. Personally I believe, it is through the hard times during sufferings that character is strongly forged.
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DISCOVERIES
Many meanings, I’m sure - otherwise why so many lives?
Comment by stan ski — October 9, 2008 @ 12:42 am
Yeah, this title sounds like a good discovery - no two snow drops are the same, Amazing!
Comment by Sweet Talking Guy.. — October 9, 2008 @ 3:13 am
Nicely said…
Comment by Tumblewords — October 9, 2008 @ 11:29 am