19/03/2017
HOW FRANKL TAP MY WILL TO MEANING
My Nineteenth Circle Story
By: Admin Myrah
Before we became Nineteenth Circle (19th Batch of Facilitator’s Circle), we were strangers to each other. Each one of us had stories to share, heartaches to air, and mostly misunderstood/ misjudged experiences. We were trained for almost 10 months, taught different theories and methods of psychotherapies. But before we actually graduated and become Facilitators, we were faced by different trials. Among these, we were faced by the truth and the ungratefulness of our being. We always ask these questions; “Why can’t I be accepted as me?, What is my purpose?,
How can I love myself?, and among other whys, whats, and hows”.
When we were introduced to Logotherapy by Viktor Frankl, we were tasked to read Man’s Search for Meaning. I’d say that the book made a great impact to me and to the group as well. I learned that despite the ungratefulness, the heartaches, the unfortunate events in my life, my will to meaning exists.
How? The book provides a very meaningful answer: “But these moments of comfort do not establish the will to live unless they help the prisoner make larger sense out of his apparently senseless suffering. It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.”– Preface by G.W. Allport
Quoting Nietzsche, "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how." So what’s your story? And how did you able to tap your will to meaning?
Read this book and be inspired! :D
(Photo credits to https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mans-Search-Meaning-Holocaust-Material/dp/1846042844)