The Will to Meaning

"Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete." - Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)

The will to meaning profoundly surpasses the will to pleasure (Freud) and the will to power (Adler). Our lives are not meant for us to invent meaning of our existence but we are intended to discover it.

In life there is always one question certain to come around: why am I here. There is no specific answer to this question because every single person is unique and every experiences differs from person to person. What is said to be significant is relative. It is the pure drive of a person to want to find out what is the meaning of his life personally. Following our dreams and letting our hearts love, remembering that God only gives us trials that we can handle. In our search for the meaning of life, we surrender ourselves completely to a supra-being and assure ourselves that we will find what we are looking for. and when we do, we can have self-transcendence.

Growing gracefully is such a beautiful thing that most people seem to miss. Self-actualization is vital in our search for meaning because, when we self-actualize we get to know ourselves better. We get to hear what our souls what us to hear, we can become one with ourselves.

Accepting life as one big wholesome experience is the most healthiest thing a person can do. In this way, the person develops a positive outlook towards life and its challenges. If we give up in our search for life, or if we reach a dead end, we experience frustration with our will to meaning. We experience noogenic neurosis, or metaphorically "existential vacuum", when we give meaning to that frustration, when we tend to focus on everything that is negative.

One must always believe that GOD PROVIDES even if in the slightest way. Those who fail to realize the graces that God shed upon us will eventually die bitter. No good will come to those who sit in bitterness as they watch others move on in their lives.... GOD PROVIDES it is just a matter of noticing it.