Good Company

my first good read of the summer. Man's Search For Meaning: An Introduction to Logotheraphy, written by Viktor E. Frankl. came highly recommended and will go highly recommended. my conclusions in one sentence, seeing as this blog is not a book review and i am not a member of any book club (despite the encouragement of my mother): i feel better equipped to live having read, no, experienced this book.


"I think the meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected."


"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him." 


"The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calender, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calender and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the full. What will it matter to him if he noticed that he is getting old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future that is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think, "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of suffering suffered. These are the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy".


i think i am growing up a bit. although i still intend to conquer the world.