So I have been reading this book called "Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor Frankyl. He was a psychiatrist and went to a concentration camp in nazi Germany. He is one of the few who survived. So many were killed, committed suicide, or simply lost the will to live and died.

He came up with a form of therapy called logotherapy. The main point of it is that we have to find meaning in our life. For everyone this is different. I was having a hard time reading it. For awhile now I have not been able to find any meaning. I feel like I am just existing.

Then I got to a section about suffering. About finding meaning in our suffering. In our culture suffering is not honored. We are expected to be happy all the time and if we are not we are expected to snap out of it or do something to fix it. His point is that suffering is a part of life. That if there is a way out of suffering and back to happiness then we should by all means do whatever we can. But there are cases where suffering cannot be fixed. Like a terminal cancer patient or a person with treatment resistant depression that they are in for years at a time.

His point is that we can find meaning in our suffering. That we can suffer bravely and with dignity. That in the face of no hope we can find meaning in our suffering. Our culture does not really embrace this way of thinking.

I don't know how to do this but this section of the book really resonated with me. I give him alot of credibility because of his life experience. In the concentration camps with everything saying he was going to end up dead he managed to find meaning and hold on to hope somehow.