On a side note: I was in Barnes and Noble, browsing through books about surviving infidelity. One of them mentioned the book "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. I had already ready the book once, but perhaps I was not in a place to truly absorb the message that it brought. After seeing the book mentioned and realizing that it absolutely pertained to my situation (and really, ANY painful situation), my memories of Frankl's story keep coming back to my mind, especially on a long walk I had today.
Basically, it's one of the most inspiring stories I've ever read. This man lost everything and everyone he held dear in the Holocaust. He lost his wife...his mother and father...and pretty much his entire family... He was also subjected to the cruelest treatments in a concentration camp including starvation and rampant beatings. Yet through all of this pain and suffering, he still realized that one could survive such suffering if a person found that there was meaning to be found in it.
I feel as though we are all finding this lesson ourselves on our own journeys...that through our pain and suffering, there may still be much meaning, growth, and opportunity that may be discovered through our endurance of it.
