Model: comforts in dark times
irreplaceable losses
future
past
opportunities for meaning
meaning of sacrifice
1 ) How many irreplaceable losses have you really had?
Probably only a few.
"Whoever was still alive had reason for hope.
Health, family, happiness, professional abilities, fortune, position in society
all these were things that could be achieved again or restored."
-- Frankl
"That which doesn't kill me, makes me stronger."
-- Nietzsche
2 ) You don't know what the future will bring.
There are always opportunities for individuals to improve their situation a little on the short term.
"For no man knew what the future would bring, much less the hour"
-- Frankl
3 ) The past has had many joys, and that will stay with you forever.
"What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you."
-- poet
"Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind"
-- Frankl
4 ) There are always opportunities to give life meaning
"keep their courage in the certainty that the hopelessness of our struggle did not detract from its dignity and its meaning"
-- Frankl
5 ) Sacrifice has meaning in any case
"I told them of a comrade who on his arrival in camp had tried to make a pact with Heaven
that his suffering and death should save the human being he loved from a painful end.
For this man, suffering and death were meaningful"
-- Frankl
(src: Man's Search for Meaning)