What else could it mean??

A great passage from the book “Man’s Search for Meaning” highlights that life may be random but our ability to create positive meaning beyond our initial suffering is our gift. Victor Frankl suggested that “what is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms, meaning goes deeper than logic”. As I read this passage over and over I started to look at nature and see that all of nature accepts the stressors of life and either adapts and flourishes or does not adapt and perish, and I think for humans, being a part of nature, we are given that same choice.

First we must accept that despite our best laid plans, bad things can and will happen, and in those events there exist the opportunity to decide on the meaning of that circumstance, as it does not come with a fixed identity. Over and over again, we are asked the question from life “what else could this mean” and that is the opportunity we are given at every turn to make powerful meaning of our life. Most of the challenges we face had some inherent gift that in retrospect have made us mentally stronger, emotionally wiser, perhaps a bit more caring and self-aware. Rather than adopting a fatalist mindset, that life is out to get me, we can now powerfully choose the meaning of the events of our life, knowing that inside every great challenge lays the opportunity to become stronger in every way because of the challenges we face. Without stress(ors) or challenges there would be no life….at…..all……

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