This book was written by Viktor Frankl. He was an Austrain psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor. He was born in March 26 1905, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria and he died September 2, 1997. His interest in psychology and the role of meaning developed when he began taking night classes on applied psychology while in junior high school. As a teenager, he began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud upon asking for permission to publish one of his papers. After graduation from high school in 1923, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna. In 1924, Frankl's first scientific paper was published in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. In the same year, he was president of the Sozialistische Mittelschüler Österreich.
Many people think that why have they come in this world, what is the meaning of the life, and why they ar existing in the world. On the other hand, duration of World War 2 he was arrested by Germanis. Then he was separated from his family members. And his family members were killed. But in unbearable conditions he wrote this beautiful and an inspiration book.
In this book the author has mentioned that most people they cannot face their life’s hard ways and directly they do quit and say that hard ways cannot be faced. We could see in this modern world the one who faces the hard ways and he/she does not quit, he/ she faces those difficulties and go on those ways which can make his/her life better and will be able to achieve the life goal that was kept from the beginning of the world. Since without hard work, there is no success. Hard work is needed in every step of life. And we could see those people who always say that hard ways don’t let them to achieve their goals, without hard ways how is it possible to achieve the goal? Furthermore, the author described that we have to know about our life’s meaning and we have to go near the risky ways since without risky ways we won’t be able to know about our real world.
The book emphasizes the power of finding purpose and how it can be help individuals navigate through life’s challenges. The people have to struggle for their goals since after reaching to their goals their life can go smoothly. And avoid the word I cannot do that tough work. In a line he described that the people want to live happily in their lives and they want hard ways must not come near to them but he described that it is wrong. Then he described that with the help of tough ways living happily is another world which make the people able to live happily with knowing about the real meaning and the purpose of life. If we want to give meaning to our life, we have to adopt a fashion in our life.
Irfan Ilahi
Turbat
The writer is a prospective teacher at University of Turbat
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