Frankly Speaking

           I've read, aside from school, many books about the holocaust. Each one filled with a brutal account of survival in a concentration camp, survival in a ghetto, and the gruesome details that make the American life seem like a dream. For Victor Frankl, his experiences related in this book were used for somewhat of an explanation, to go beyond the horrific story we have all heard, and expose the mindset of an average prisoner. Strange that we, sitting on our warm couches, our cozy beds, or with a full stomach in class could even attempt to try, but nonetheless Frankl gives us the chance. Man's Search For Meaning. He not only revisits his experiences and shares his intimate thought processes, but he goes even further. It's like "here take my horrifying experience, take my hunger, my pain, my exhaustion, my humiliation and I want you (sitting on the cozy bed, the comfy couch, the classroom with your full stomach) to use this to find meaning in your life. I'm gonna show you how to find meaning." It's mind numbing. That he gave and gave and gave. His wife, his freedom, his body, and so much more only to in the end turn around and give back, to use his experience to help. To give the world Logotherapy, and even after being in a world without humanity to be able to make an impact on humanity.