I’ve been reading Man’s search for meaning, by Frankl and I’m impressed by it. It’s the story of his sufferings in the concentration camps during the 2WW and how he made it through it as a psychologist.

The book is amazing, tho the anecdotes are brutally frank. Yet, Frankl tries to explain through psychology the whys of human behavior, both good and evil. But the point I would like to discuss is where the author explains that it’s not us who expect something from life; it’s life itself which expects something from us.

Circumstances are there and they’re only waiting to see what are we gonna do about it. This statement delivers us a responsibility on our behavior, so we cannot excuse us behind other people or behind what we call “fate”. As Frankl states: “Man is the creature who decides who he is”. It’s cool, isn’t it?

But it’s hard to accept and even harder to live it. That’s why Frankl also confesses: “In logotherapy, the patient […] must listen to things that, sometimes, are disgusting to hear”.

For instance, I found out that a neurotic person is egocentric too! Quite obvious, but it’s hard to recognize it. Anyway, I’ve never felt proud of my neurosis.

You see, I’ve always blamed the others and blamed my circumstances for how I am. But I never noticed that it was up to me to do something about it. So if I’m unhappy and narcissistic and all that stuff, it’s only because of me, cuz I decided to be that way.

So today i decide to be happy and free!