Friday, July 30, 2010

Man's Search for Meaning

"He has a why to live for can bear with almost any how." (Federich Nietzche)

I'm reading "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl who formed the theory of logotheraphy that postulated a will to meaning. 
Often we feel meaningless, depressed and stressful with our life; whereby some choose to let go (suicide)while some compromise with the suffering and let it conquered their life, which lead to ultimate destruction at the end.
Since very young, I have the thought that we live only once, therefore why not live it to the fullest and experience life ultimately?   Well, I guess everyone knows and understands the phrase, as we have came aross it for hundreds and thousands times before.  We crave for it, so start to practice it in our daily lives, doing all sort of things just to make ourselves believe that we are living the life fullestly... and sometimes even making others believe it the same way too.  We often think that would be the happily-ever-after ending, until something happen and things start to go the other way around, that is where everything reveals it true self. 
We start to doubt of what we have been believing for years, and questioning the sincerity of people around us and the worst, we don't understand ourselves any more, we are a totally a stranger to ourselves; we lose faith towards God, everything seems to be very uncertain.  No way to get out, we are trapped, no one to trust, not even ourselves...
These phrases sound  familiar, right?  Well, it indicates that we are just the same, that we are normal human beings, so don't feel bad if you ever felt it that way.
I agreed to Viktor Frankl that when we eventually give up when we can no longer bear the pain and suffering is because we do not have the reason to live, therefore, everything seems to be meaningless, as we do not establish the meaning for our existence in this world from the start.
We often say walk the talk, but how true is it, only to be found out when things happened and we get to learn the true self that kept deep inside us. 
Our existence is defined by the meaning and reason to live, to continue the journey, so the one with reason and know their meaning of living the life survive the battle. 
Let's us define our existence by finding the reason of living in this world.  May we all be the survivors of all the battles that may strike us in the future.
Cheers to our own existence! 

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