“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.“

Friedrich Nietzsche

In re-reading Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning,” there was a passage that struck me in a different way than my first time through. That was when Frankl mentions the death rate of prisoners increased over Christmas and New Years.

Not because the conditions were any different, but because many prisoners assumed they would be home again by that time.

When we lose all hope in any tomorrow, in any future, in anything that life expects from us (not necessarily what we expect from life), we see the decline of ourselves.

It’s for this reason, we must hold steadfast and live with hope in our hearts. It may be the only thing that can keep us going.