I cannot explain the plethora of emotions that I experienced during and after reading "Man's Search for Meaning", but I can say that I've recommended it to almost everyone who seemed remotely interested. Honestly, the biggest thing that I drew from the book wasn't a quote from Frankl, but a quite from Nietzche that he used on page 76.
"He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."
Even though this is a very simple phrase, it just struck me deep. It got me thinking about people that I have met, and things that they have accomplished. Things that I never would have imagined possible, but they were determined because they had a "why". I thought about things that I've done that were only possible because of my "why", whatever it might have been at the time. It also got me thinking about what my "why" currently is, and to be honest I was surprised at how long it took me to figure it out. Of course, I'm not going to share my "why" here, because that would be too simple. Knowing my "why" might hinder the recognition of your "why", and we wouldn't want that, would we?
So what did we learn today? Secondary sources sometimes steal the spotlight? Socrates was on to something when he asked "why"? Ben is a terrible person for not sharing his "why"? All good answers. Tune in next week for the next exciting installment of "Why Me?" Starring Benjamin Folse, Evan Rachel Wood, Tim Curry, Helena Bonham Carter, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Bacon.
P.S. I commented on Josh Spell's blog "Life is Beautiful" (Which is an AMAZING movie by the way, if you haven't seen it, you need to!)
P.P.S. I actually just recommended this book to another friend of mine while writing all of this.
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