Man's Search For Meaning Essay: The Struggles Of A Hard Life

The Struggles Of A Hard Life Viktor E. Frankl wrote the book Man’s Search for Meaning. In this book he describes how life was in a conservation camp. He wrote about many horrible acts that has happened to him and his fellow prisoners. I have not experienced these horrible things in the same sort of way, but I have experienced them in my own life if different situations. I have selected four quotes from his book that have meaning to myself. First, Frankle wrote, “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves”. I believe that he is saying when we can’t change what is going on in life we have to change ourselves to what is going happening. We have to change to the environment of the situation,

I think that life can throw us some curve balls throughout our days on earth. I mean one day I was healthy as a horse and the next day I was told I had cancer. I was still happy every day that I wake up because that’s another day I get to live. When he says “Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the task which it constantly sets for each individual’, is in my belief that he is saying make something out of ourselves. This means a great deal to me because I want to be the first person to graduate college out of my two brothers. In this book he put the quote, “The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living”. He’s talking about how it’s hard to see humor or be humorous in a bad or dark situation like he was put through. How it’s hard for a person to grasp humor while their dying or they are struggling through hard family times. He mentions ‘while mastering the art of living”, so he can describe to the reader about how hard the life of a prisoner really was. He wants everyone to know it was hard for him to see humor as his life in these

Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams and deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, freighted at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.” Frankl is talking about the camp being so bad that no man’s nightmare could ever come close to it. He didn’t was to wake the man from it, because he thinks that he is better off sleeping through it so he does not bring him back to the reality of the