When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
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