Friday, 6 January 2012

Man's Search For Meaning

This is just amazing. Everyone needs to read this book. It certainly puts into perspective how enriched our lives have become. Being a survivor from a Concentration Camp, stripped of every aspect of who you are: your family, possessions, even your name and body hair. Being left with the shell of your body which is slowly diminishes through hard labour and lack of food. How does one come from such a place back to who you once were.
Well, Viktor Frankl did and through his experience explored a new therapy: Logotherapy.
Personally, I didn't understand it as a therapy but a way of living. changing your views on life and the situation within which we find ourselves and how we respond to it and to each other.

Read this book, if you don't take something from it, I will eat my hat. It will encourage you to think about your own life and certainly how I make a mountain out of a teeny weeny mole hill, or dwell on a feeling or situation. This puts me to shame, but makes me want to change myself and not be ruled by fear and emotion, such trivias in the great scheme of things.

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