Frankl says that there are three ways to find the meaning of life.He states one need to find the meaning of love, suffering, and the will to meaning. You have to find a meaning in your suffering and know that for some horrible reason there is a purpose from it.You can not explain why people are tortured, murdered, die a slow and painful death or are ripped away abruptly from those whom they love. There is no explanation but to know that we as human beings grow and learn from our pain. It is up to us how to approach life once it has occurred the path we decide to take. We can place blame on everyone and everything or accept it and grow from it. Finding meaning in will is basically finding a way to get past the things that are bothering you or temporarily holding you back. Frankl talks about the will to live in the book when discussing a man who fights to live so that he can be reunited with his young son. He wills himself to endure the hardships and unspeakable things that happen at the concentration camps so that he can one day be with his son. He has hope that he will be free one day and they will reunite. His will is what kept him going and kept him sane. The meaning of love was a good one. Frankl tells how if someone knows that they are loved and someone believes in them then they are more likely to make those potential ideals come true. Love is also interpreted with sex and the meaning put behind it. "Love is a primary pheonmenon as sex. Normally, sex is a mode of expression for love. Sex is justified, even sanctified, as soon as, but only as long as , it is a vehicle of love. Thus love is not understood as a mere side-effect of sex; rather, sex is a way of expressing the experience of that ultimate togetherness which is called love" (Frankl, p. 112).
I loved this book, but as far as pleasure reading goes, I plan to read something more along the lines of James Patterson or Nicholas Sparks. I was a bothered when I was finished reading each night. I would read while in the bath tub or while my daughter slept. I had bad dreams every night after reading this book. They didnt have anything to do with the reading, but all of my dreams were violent. I relate them to the book since I had not watched anything violence on the television and I am not in any way a violent person.
Read for 10 minutes Monday October 24, 2011- I went back over what I read and wrote for last week because I could not remember. I have been so busy that I kind of space things off if it isnt on the top of my mind. So this was basically review.
Read for 40 minutes Tuesday October 25, 2011
Read for 40 minutes Thursday October 27, 2011.
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