Contemplating, the meanings of our lives, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
There were the news of students committing suicide, I too, once, felt tried in school, so I can, empathize.
“What the professor told us, ‘when you find meaning, then, all the trials, won’t feel, trying anymore,’ this rang true to me.” That was, what a student gained an understanding of in the middle of night, after hours of, contemplating on the meaning of life as he tried to solve a problem; the German philosopher, Nietzsche believed also, that, “knowing why we’re alive, and we can, endure through, all the trials in our lives.”?
During the second world war, the Austrian psychologist, Frankl and his families were taken into the concentration camps, as he survived, he’d used the methods of logotherapy, to help those who are helpless in their depression. In the camps, those kept there only saw despair, which added on to their sense of pessimism, and giving up on themselves more, pushing people towards the edges of death, but he’d found a way, to save himself.
In 1953, in the psychotherapy conference held in the Netherlands, he’d lectured on “how I treated those in need in the concentration camps”, explained how he’d utilized the methods of dissociation, “I kept trying, to displace myself from the disasters, to put myself out and away from the scenes, like looking from the sides, or from above. For instance, when we’d marched in the snow, we were cold, and hungry, I felt I couldn’t, keep going anymore, so I’d imagined that I was, in a warm lecture hall, and lecturing on “the psychotherapy in the concentration camps”., this sort of a reality, it’d helped him to encourage others to face up to their own fates that they couldn’t, change (i.e. being diagnosed with cancer), giving meanings to our own, lives. Even, he had, idealized the treatment methods: if a person is suddenly overcome with huge tragedy as a test, then it must be, meaningful, like something is, waiting for me, expect for me to do, there’s something, that’s, caused, my existence.
As a student doubted if s/he is in school, because the classmates easily made better grades. But, making the grades may not have anything to do if you’re fitting to study; the former C.E.O. of TSMC, Chang was asked about how to face the competitions, especially when you can’t, see the sun beyond the clouds?” he’d quoted, “running fast may not win, going all out may not give you that win.” If you’re in doubt, talk with the teachers, the counselors, to find what you’re good at. And, keep that confidence intact, the Austrian psychologist, Adler didn’t do well in school, until he’d made the highest score at a high school exam, and it’d added to his confidence level, and he’d, made the strides since then.” In 1952, as Chang received his master’s, he couldn’t test into the doctoral program, he’d not given up on himself, instead, he was, “accidentally blessed”, and started his business in the semi-conductor manufacturing industry.
There are so many ways one can become successful in the world. Contemplate hard on your interests, and what you’re good at, and stop ramming into those, dead ends. The German writer, Goethe and the English philosopher, Rousseau, both attempted suicide as they found it hard figuring out the meanings of their lives. In fact, the meanings of life is made by oneself; in a thought, life is, changed.
“Life will find a way”, as the line in the movie, “Jurassic Park” stated.
And so, this is on finding out what you’re good at, and pursuing what you’re good at, to find meanings to your own life, but, it’s like another article said, “being alive is meaning in itself”, because, each breath we take is, meaningful, we just, don’t realize it is all.
Life, the Obstacle Course 