Thanks for this ! Frankl’s book is powerful in many ways, and we always have a choice, but so many of us never see this. We are so hyperconnected to everything and anything that we have become disconnected from ourselves. We have become a ‘human doing’, running on auto pilot and connecting our self worth to how much we do. More is always better (at least that is what we believe), but the problem is it’s never enough. No amount of doing will ever quell the emptiness that grows, while we frenetically move through this life. I know this well because I lived this way for a long time. It is a life I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, an empty existence that to me became a life of extreme suffering. On the surface it seems to work but eventually one day when life gets dark and we can’t run from ourselves anymore, that life show’s itself and it’s foundation made of nothing. Purpose, meaning, creativity, connection and experiences that foster these things are the way. In the end the one thing we can control is our attitude and how we respond to what life throws at us. I think if we can slow down, disconnect and pay attention to ourselves we have a chance at seeing how many choices we do have, and that is true freedom.
