The ultimate question "what is the meaning of life?" has never been really asked by me until recently. Many today work so hard for a means to live, but no meaning to live for.
I picked up a book by Dr. Viktor Frankl, an Auschitz survivor and famous psychiatrist, who wrote the best selling book "Man's Search for Meaning." In this book he says each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therefore he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Vikto Frankl at his time in Auschitz realized that everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
One of God's greatest gift to mankind was the freedom of choice. It is this attitude that I must carry on in life to not only succeed, but to be responsible for my life. We often ask questions about the meaning of life, and to this question we can only answer to life by answering for our own life. To this question, we can only respond by being responsible.
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