We can not avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it and move forward with renewed purpose and hope. The victim in a qualified situation of distress, pain, anguish or indeed deprivation, being rational can make a conscious and conscientious decision to walk away from the established cause of misery. These preceding paragraph from Viktor E. Franklin’s “MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING” sets forth both the tone and context of the foregoing discourse.
On December 7th, 2024, the
