Víktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and survivor of the Holocaust, expressed clearly in his work the man in search of meaning. There he tells how, even in the most extreme conditions, the people who managed to find a purpose – something or someone to live – had more chances of sustaining themselves emotionally. Frankl did not talk about naive optimism, but about a deep force: to have a reason to get up every day.
In our daily lives, that sense can take different ways: accompany someone we want, develop a vocation, participate in a cause, create something, take care of others or simply be present with love in the links we cultivate.
When we feel that what we do makes sense, a feeling of fullness appears that does not depend on external recognition or the success measured in material terms. It is an intimate, silent, but powerful feeling.
And perhaps there is the key: building a life with meaning is not a goal that is achieved once and for all, but a constant search, a path that is with conscience and authenticity.
As a psychologist, I accompany people who ask questions about their purpose, their decisions, their values every day. Because it’s not about living doing “more”, but about living connected to what for each one really matters.
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