Existentialism
Stagnation is not an option I would like to share with you where I am at this juncture, in the hopes that it will meet you where you are and lift you to a healthier frame of mind. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle. Let us talk a little bit about existentialism. In Victor E. Frankls' 'Man's Search For Meaning,' we are confronted with the following statement: "We should not be hesitant about challenging man with a potential meaning for him to fulfil. It is only thus that we evoke his will to meaning from his state of latency. I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the first place is equilibrium, or as it is called in biology, 'homeostasis,' i.e. a tensionless state. What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task." I am recently challe