The Inner Self-Social Predicament
This world is full of beautiful, misguided creatures, full of dreamers, those who can no longer see the effects that our social structure can have on us, those who revolutionize ideas and beliefs, great thinkers and even greater advertisers.
As humans-being, we can only grasp so much and we hold on to hope, even when logic and reasoning attempt to convince us otherwise. There is something within the human being that is built for the everlasting, for inner transformation, for retaining a semblance of ‘the good’ amidst the harshest of circumstances.
Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist, and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor, endured the harshest conditions during his imprisonment. Yet, his Spirit is what kept him going, often sacrificing himself for others.
He lived to tell the tale of his endurance in “A Man’s Search for Meaning,” in which he states:
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
