Sren Kierkegaard 1. Friedrich Nietzsche 1. Jean Paul Sartre 1. This school of thought is known as Existentialism, which encourages us to live life with passion and authenticity. In short, we are each responsible for the values we create through which we make sense of the world, and we are solely in charge of creating our lifes meaning. Of the more recent existentialists, Viktor Frankl 1. Mans Search For Meaning 1. In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. During World War II Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist, was arrested alongside his wife and parents in 1. Minggu ini Dato Eddy menerima dua kes individu yang mengalami masalah ketidakstabilan emosi yang mana pihak doktor meletakkan mereka sebagai pesakit psikatri dan. Nazi soldiers, and was imprisoned for one year in 1. Auschwitz concentration camp. By the time of liberation in 1. Thanks to grace and good fortune, most of us will never know the horrors that Frankl and other Holocaust victims witnessed and suffered. Adobe Photoshop Cs4 Tutorials Video Download on this page. Many of our lives are, for the most part, positive or at the very least comfortable. As a result, we have no experience of the kind of suffering that strongly calls for a sense of determination and the hope that there must a reason for everything and meaning behind what we endure. Certainly, to suffer so much and for there to be no meaning to life whatsoever would surely be the most agonising of all suffering. If Frankl felt that life had no meaning, he might have given up hope and died in the camp. As many Holocaust survivors have acknowledged, the feeling that there remained a purpose to life is what kept them going. But how do we, living in todays relative comfort, find meaning in life if it all appears mundane and without purpose I sometime wonder if we in the younger generations do too much thinking and not enough doing. Thinking is a valuable tool, of course however, living in a time when instant gratification and convenience abound can lead to spending too much time living in our heads at the expense of fully experiencing life. In the days before the technological and social advances we now take for granted, people in general lived life more than they thought about how to live, partly because they didnt have the luxuries that we enjoy today. In tough times, purpose is easier to find. Whether its finding ways to survive during the Great Depression or world wars, helping others, or educating future generations on history, humanitys darkest hours have often presented meaningful insights that have helped to shape a brighter future. Today, some might feel apathetic about an existence that appears to be a lot less exciting, and believe themselves to be part of a lost generation. However, life has never owed us meaning, although it has occasionally provided the circumstances through which meaning can be created. Finding purpose in life comes from an exploration of the challenges and opportunities that exist today and its an exploration that has to be active rather than passive. Talking so much about the meaning of life will only lead to tight jaws and sore heads. Instead, we should spend more time being with life and doing something with it. There is no end to the discoveries yet to be made, even if in our hubris we humans always like to believe theres nothing new to find under the sun. When even fatalists continue to wonder about lifes meaning, it shows that theres something deep within all of us that recognises life as an exciting and precious gift filled with endless possibilities. To wonder about why we exist can only take us so far. Perhaps our purpose in life is revealed through our interaction with it. After all, no significant discovery was ever made without eager minds and curious exploration. Sandy Clarke has long held an interest in emotions, mental health, mindfulness and meditation believes the more we understand ourselves and each other, the better societies we can create. If you have any questions or comments, e mail star. Read more at http www. B0. Fc. CUov. ODh.