Frankly Speaking

Man's Search for Meaning seems to me like a very interesting type of social experiment. Detestably the worst event of all time, the Holocaust, is fully experienced and understood by our author and psychologist, Viktor Frankl. The main theme of this experiment seems to be that a man can go through something as massively bad as the Holocaust and still understand that there still is meaning in life and he can also help other people find things in their life that is meaningful and worth living for. I think that its an interesting point to show that although Frankl has probably been through worse than all his patients, he can understand that "worse" is subjective and some people's simple troubles to them are horrible. I'm not trying to say that people's everyday stress and troubles are as bad as the Holocaust but to them, they've never experienced the Holocaust so these troubles are the worse they've seen. It's sort of like taking the ACT math section. You could know calculus and get a 36 and you could barely know precalculus and still get a 36. You get the same score but one of you is smarter in the field of math or in this case, experienced a worse event. In both cases the knowledge or the severity of events is different but the score you get or the impact of the events can be equal. I find it quite heart-warming that in Frankl's eyes, everyone can find meaning in life. I think it's great to think that no matter what someone has been through, there can still be importance to them.