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Essay / The man in search of meaning By psychiatrist Viktor Frankl
Frankl suffered during his stay in a concentration camp. Frankl believes that suffering is part of the experience a person will have in life. “When a man discovers that his destiny is to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his one and only task. (99) No one can relieve you of your suffering, your luck lies in how you deal with your suffering, that's Frankl's idea. Wolpe experienced suffering in a different way. He suffered a battle with cancer. Suffering is one of the real things that Wolpe mentions and on which our lives are based. Sometimes we can't see suffering, but at the same time we can't see God, but that doesn't mean God doesn't exist. Suffering exists even if we cannot see it. "Believing only in what one can see seems to be a special form of blindness (Wolpe